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D&D players are the USAmericans of TTRPG players <- a statement that makes perfect sense if you have the eyes to see

Beyond just the incuriosity which a lot of D&D 5e players express often loudly ("Why would I need to learn about other games? D&D already does everything perfectly!") there's very much this learned helplessness that often rears its head during discussions about D&D's hegemonic position in the hobby: even people who realize that D&D is the elephant in the room and that WotC's position as the stewards of the hobby is probably not an unambiguously good thing people will fall into this pattern of learned helplessness. I already learned D&D and learning another game is too hard, how am I supposed to find these other games, and sometimes also basically saying that actually D&D players are the most oppressed of the TTRPG players because those other gamers are actually cool and know shit so they are actually the ones who hold all the power, when you think about it D&D is actually a plucky underdog fighting against those mean indie designers. I think I've lost the thread again.

Also, there seem to be a lot of DnD players who talk a lot about how they hate WoTC, but still only play DnD, do absolutely nothing to challenge WoTC’s de facto monopoly, and fully accept most if not all of DnD’s assumptions about how games work as universally true.

I useally go with cis people of ttrpgs (think thier way of life is under attack when any alternative is brought up) but that works too.

If we study how ex-DnD players learned to play another game we might just be able to bring about the socialist revolution.

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SADISTIC MUTUAL: it is a moral imperative to push the princess around, and punch her in the stomach, and roundhouse kick her in the throat, and cut her with blades ANTIMONARCHIST MUTUAL: [confused but enthusiastically going along with it] and line her up with her family and shoot her dead, and orchestrate a lie that they fled the country so that they are not remembered as martyrs

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