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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8917998" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>If by "good amount of time" you mean "a year" then sure - IIRC Tunnels and Trolls came out within a year of TSR publishing their little books. </p><p></p><p>I think even if you call the initial self-publication of Ken St. Andre's game too narrowly distributed to count, it's less than 5 years between the publishing of the original books to when there were a number of different choices out there. Traveller was like 77 I think, Runequest was either 77 or 78. Villains and Vigilantes was out sometime in the 70s as well. I'm sure I'm probably missing some others. So we're talking at most 2-3 years, not a huge amount of time. Once the idea was out there lots of folks started seeing both the potential and the limits of what TSR was publishing and started making their own.</p><p></p><p>But also - she was probably writing to Gizmodo's target audience, who probably have always had a choice of games since the time they started in the hobby. There's been an entire generation of gamers who didn't know what the gaming world was like before the OGL, let alone who don't remember what life was like back in 1974. Heck as far as I'm concerned there has never been a time in my life when D&D was the only game in town and I'm as old as D&D is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8917998, member: 19857"] If by "good amount of time" you mean "a year" then sure - IIRC Tunnels and Trolls came out within a year of TSR publishing their little books. I think even if you call the initial self-publication of Ken St. Andre's game too narrowly distributed to count, it's less than 5 years between the publishing of the original books to when there were a number of different choices out there. Traveller was like 77 I think, Runequest was either 77 or 78. Villains and Vigilantes was out sometime in the 70s as well. I'm sure I'm probably missing some others. So we're talking at most 2-3 years, not a huge amount of time. Once the idea was out there lots of folks started seeing both the potential and the limits of what TSR was publishing and started making their own. But also - she was probably writing to Gizmodo's target audience, who probably have always had a choice of games since the time they started in the hobby. There's been an entire generation of gamers who didn't know what the gaming world was like before the OGL, let alone who don't remember what life was like back in 1974. Heck as far as I'm concerned there has never been a time in my life when D&D was the only game in town and I'm as old as D&D is. [/QUOTE]
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