Quick Note about D&D vs. COC
A friend’s nephew, let’s call him “John Freeman”, and some of his friends, got a starter set of Dungeons and Dragons, 3.5 I think, none of them had played, apparently, and one of them ran an intro scenario.
“John” said that after about only thirty minutes in, during combat, a couple of the other half dozen people said, “Hey man, did you bring Call of Cthulhu? Let’s play that.”
These are about 16-18 year olds, so I’m fairly surprised, considering this is a group that he has played games with before, Warhammer FRP 2nd Edition and I think Champions, and CoC and some other games, and considering how popular D&D is in other places in general.
From a realist and personal standpoint, I’m not surprised, and am gratified that there are young people with the same kind of discernment that lead me to think what “John” does – “it’s like playing WoW but in tabletop” – which wasn’t meant as a compliment, even though he’s a WoW player.
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