I wonder if it's also that the various BRP games have kind of skirted the traditional genre tropes...
I mean, for me that's a plus... I never went in for the Tolkienesque Eurofantasy all that much... but I never got into Glorantha all that much either...
I wonder if the interesting settings Chaosium has chosen to focus on have been just enough outside the mainstream to keep that mass influx of interest at bay... even if the promotion/support had been higher.
Ringworld didn't easily fit the expectations of a Traveller or Warhammer 40K player... Elric is kind of pale and wierd and where are the elves/dwarves/hobbits?... Runequest, 'you mean I HAVE to play a cleric?'... 'does COC really expect me to spend more time in the library than killing monsters?... What do you mean I can't kill the monsters?!!!'
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