The barmaid of Bob's Country Bunker in The Blues Brothers saying "Oh, we got both kinds of roleplaying game here - D&D *and* Pathfinder"
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Is the US situation that bad regarding game diversity ?

I am in a very active club, and less than half of the games are D&D and clones (including pathfinder and OSR in D&D and clones), before that I was part of an active online community, and again while D&D was big it wasn't more than half of the game ran.

And if you look at new games starting, due to D&D tendency to be relatively long campaign, it's even hard to find a seat at a D&D game because relatively few games starts compared to other games. (And then there is a couple of indie-game one-shots GM, meaning that there is always a slot open for a less known and often weirder game)

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  • No, actually, but general cultural awareness is really only those two, and maybe iffy on Pathfinder, and given the popularity of Stranger Things, D&D had a lot of mainstream attention, and Pathfinder is arguably a better place to start for newbies interested due to Stranger Things. As far as I understand. I've never actually played either D&D or Pathfinder, but I have been in Vampire the Masquerade and Serenity tabletop groups.

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