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When people advocate for playing non-DnD RPGs, we are honestly mostly advocating for a healthier industry. One where more people and companies thrive and we don& #39;t just centralise the whole thing in a single shitty toy company. It mostly isn& #39;t about the game.
We want an industry where more writers or designers can make ends meet without having to give in and write for 5e because that& #39;s where the money is. Where we don& #39;t have to pay WotC for the privilege of making ends meet. We& #39;re not asking for yachts here.
We& #39;re asking for a market where the small press output of someone who can barely afford a print run isn& #39;t only compared to the economies of scale a giant global firm can afford.
We& #39;re asking for a hobby where the words RPG don& #39;t mean one single thing in most people& #39;s minds. Where people who don& #39;t like that one thing can be included.
A business model where your FLGS is more than just an outlet for the products of two companies (Asmodee/WotC) and can study afloat without them.
A community where we can talk about games plural and want to play other things without pushback as if we& #39;re weird or unreasonable.
That& #39;s why we get frustrated or angry. You can *play* whatever you like, but supporting the crappy state of the industry is something we can& #39;t get behind.
It isn& #39;t about being cool or elitist, or being a dickhead to you. It& #39;s about making RPGs a better field to work and play in. I& #39;m supportive of your right to play what you want, but I& #39;m not supportive of your choice to reinforce a poisonous hegemony.
(obviously if you& #39;re in the group of people I referred to earlier who have to write for 5e to make ends meet, you do you)
The & #39;but I like playing D&D& #39; answer. I get it. I& #39;ve had wonderful times playing D&D with my friends. Now, I play other games deliberately, to support what I want the industry to be like. I can get the same play experience or better, and achieve something else too.
Oh, and yes it is my agenda to make money from games. That& #39;s entirely the point. Wanting a 5 billion dollar company to make a bit less so I can do what I love is not evil or dastardly.
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