Everything you don’t know about #monopoly:
And speaking about assumed monopolies:
Given the current glacial state of the #ttrpg hobby, this is the kind of content that you can post every day while waiting for the penny to drop for some relevant number of people.
If Hasbro was allowed to be present in every tabletop hobby with all the power they exercise at scale, modern #boardgames would have never had room to flourish. They would be in the same state as #ttrpgs Gasping for air with no clear identity beyond Hasbro's corporate banners.
Boardgames gained new ground in this century and particularly in my country when conventions started happening and nobody cared to have any monopoly or magic in them. In the case of Portugal, these all had to be community driven events. All stores are still dominated by Hasbro.
More and more I keep wondering if we could think of #DnD and #TTRPGs as just two separate things. Hasbro occupies so much of our space that it co-opts everything that’s adjacent to it. Specially when the mindset is locked in to all RPGs being pretty much the same.
Does need to be a practical distinction, monopoly is still a boardgame and D&D is still an RPG. But in practice, I feel a lack of space to breathe, talk and play something else. Much like boardgame conventions are filled with people that are there because monopoly mostly isn't.
And yes, this implies accepting the fact that you go to that space and almost nobody shows up. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, wear it with pride 😅
Meanwhile, seems early to predict how agressively Hasbro will try to syphon new players towards their digital offerings. But it's possible that #OneDnD itself will push for this separation from #TTRPGs As if there's nothing beyond the D&D Beyond.
Ironically, that mindset I mentioned that sees all #ttrpgs as pretty much the same is also a cap on the kind of growth Hasbro wants. 4E tried to address that (best D&D ever) and now they’re probably hoping that their tech delivers where their game design fell short.
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