Lol at the folks online acting like people moving on from D&D is some sort of unprecedented cultural shift, as opposed to the absolutely most predictable thing that could possibly happen. It has happened to every generation of D&D players since 1974.
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5e will probably always be my default, but I like playing other systems too now
Certainly you're correct, people were migrating to other Systems since always.
Or publisher, perhaps.
Maybe start with CBR+PNK as your base and adjust from there?
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I think that perception was junk, but that was the perception!
... the group at the FLGS I was first part of went from D&D to Rolemaster, for instance. For the crunch.
But there's never been a time that D&D wasn't at least an order of magnitude bigger than every other RPG.
People really don't understand just how much larger D&D is than everything else in the TTRPG industry.
God knows I have a stack of RPGs on my shelf that I would LOVE to get the chance to play.
I don't think most D&D players are spending a lot of time on social media talking about D&D. The two phenomena are largely unrelated.
RuneQuest literally began from Steve Perrin's "moving on from D&D", aka "The Perrin Conventions".
(Perrin was not the first author Greg Stafford approached to design RuneQuest, but he was brought in because of the Conventions and his version was the one that actually got published.)
Here's a link to all of the Chaosium blog posts tagged #StevePerrin, including his 6-part essay on the creation of RQ.
Not that adventure in a spaceship dungeon, I mean, like, flying around in an Asimov story spaceships