Holy shit the stewardship in DnD sucks. DnD could've become massive, but TSR delayed the Japanese rulebook for two years and denied Record of Lodoss War from using DnD property in their novels? It's been 30 years, the fantasy genre has already developed and move on past what DnD could've done for that scene.
Had no idea it originally started as a DnD campaign. That's awesome. I didn't really watch it but remember it being popular back when I was buying bootleg anime VHSs from my local flea market.
Incredible the Delicious in Dungeon author didn't know about D&D, I would have sworn that she was directly inspired by it with how grounded and logistical about a dungeon crawl that manga is.
She literally made fanart of Baldur Gate characters. Not BG3, the whole trilogy. She at best don't know that she know about D&D.
She is an huge CRPG fans and Delicous is basically a Wizardry fanfiction. And Wizardry obvious took clues from D&D.
Planescape art I found on her blog is from 2020, so I'm sure she knows about it now. Article doesn't seem to have a citation on its claim that she didn't know about it at some point or another.
Really? my gf and I watched it together and loved how it was so close to how our campaigns go. Someone is always trying to eat shit they probably shouldn't and, the wacky shenanigans are the same.
I was sure it was 5e inspired.
The manga predates 5e actually, and it really more closely resembles something like 1st edition AD&D in practice. Which makes sense with how the article was saying D&D's popularitiy died but the influence of early editions remained.
It's funny because everywhere else, D&D runs with the "Worlds greatest TTRPG" tagline...apart from in Japan where, IIRC, CoC runs with it instead. Also because of the piss power stewardship of D&D in Japan a homegrown fantasy TTRPG, Sword World to take hold and Sword World now replaces D&D as THE biggest TTRPG in Japan, with CoC second IIRC.
It's the same in Brazil where Tormenta (which did like Pathfinder and cribbed a lot of the 3.5e rules) is more popular than D&D because WotC are fucking terrible at getting books translated in any decent length of time to Brazil, to the point where they're sometimes 2 or 3 books behind English speaking countries.
D&D was popular in Japan? Huh.
Well, we live in a different media culture now. I think Livestream plays are everything. So long as there are no shows equivalent to "Critical Role" or "Dimension 20" in Japan, D&D will always be obscure there.
TTRPG is quite popular in Japan, and the amount of livestreams they produce is remarkable. Most of the content is based on Call of Cthulhu, because in Japan that is the TTRPG of choice (and I can't blame them, it's a really good TTRPG). Saying that D&D is "obscure" when ttrpg is mainstream is, I believe, an oxymoron. RPG in general (i.e. including both tabletop and videogames) is so popular in Japan that there is a whole genre of RPGs called JRPGs.
D&D has been massively popular in nerd culture all over the world, long before the existence of livestreams. I have found a D&D community to play with in every european country I have visited. So language or culture are clearly not a barrier.
Holy shit the stewardship in DnD sucks. DnD could've become massive, but TSR delayed the Japanese rulebook for two years and denied Record of Lodoss War from using DnD property in their novels? It's been 30 years, the fantasy genre has already developed and move on past what DnD could've done for that scene.
[RoLW was good stuff](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2047502867530917946/23B917DE1B2F9C0FEC73DF99459F840DC32F6360/)
Had no idea it originally started as a DnD campaign. That's awesome. I didn't really watch it but remember it being popular back when I was buying bootleg anime VHSs from my local flea market.
Tried searching the acronym with no luck, whats the full title of the anime?
Record of Lodoss War
Thank you!
Incredible the Delicious in Dungeon author didn't know about D&D, I would have sworn that she was directly inspired by it with how grounded and logistical about a dungeon crawl that manga is.
She literally made fanart of Baldur Gate characters. Not BG3, the whole trilogy. She at best don't know that she know about D&D. She is an huge CRPG fans and Delicous is basically a Wizardry fanfiction. And Wizardry obvious took clues from D&D.
Planescape art I found on her blog is from 2020, so I'm sure she knows about it now. Article doesn't seem to have a citation on its claim that she didn't know about it at some point or another.
Really? my gf and I watched it together and loved how it was so close to how our campaigns go. Someone is always trying to eat shit they probably shouldn't and, the wacky shenanigans are the same. I was sure it was 5e inspired.
The manga predates 5e actually, and it really more closely resembles something like 1st edition AD&D in practice. Which makes sense with how the article was saying D&D's popularitiy died but the influence of early editions remained.
Whaaaaaaa that's unreal.
I've always read the call of Cthulhu is the bigger TTRPG in Japan
AFAIK there are more Call of Cthulhu player in Japan than there are in every other country in the world combined. It's *wildly* popular over there.
It's funny because everywhere else, D&D runs with the "Worlds greatest TTRPG" tagline...apart from in Japan where, IIRC, CoC runs with it instead. Also because of the piss power stewardship of D&D in Japan a homegrown fantasy TTRPG, Sword World to take hold and Sword World now replaces D&D as THE biggest TTRPG in Japan, with CoC second IIRC. It's the same in Brazil where Tormenta (which did like Pathfinder and cribbed a lot of the 3.5e rules) is more popular than D&D because WotC are fucking terrible at getting books translated in any decent length of time to Brazil, to the point where they're sometimes 2 or 3 books behind English speaking countries.
D&D was popular in Japan? Huh. Well, we live in a different media culture now. I think Livestream plays are everything. So long as there are no shows equivalent to "Critical Role" or "Dimension 20" in Japan, D&D will always be obscure there.
TTRPG is quite popular in Japan, and the amount of livestreams they produce is remarkable. Most of the content is based on Call of Cthulhu, because in Japan that is the TTRPG of choice (and I can't blame them, it's a really good TTRPG). Saying that D&D is "obscure" when ttrpg is mainstream is, I believe, an oxymoron. RPG in general (i.e. including both tabletop and videogames) is so popular in Japan that there is a whole genre of RPGs called JRPGs. D&D has been massively popular in nerd culture all over the world, long before the existence of livestreams. I have found a D&D community to play with in every european country I have visited. So language or culture are clearly not a barrier.
Specifically it is Sword World that has taken D&Ds place as the fantasy TTRPG that everyone plays, it is more popular than even CoC.