It does say "and Gaming".... They're just name dropping D&D as it's the biggest, most popular & most famous system to help people find the section. I agree that "Tabletop gaming" or something would be better, but I totally get why they're using D&D's name here. It's really not that deep.

I will act dismissive when you complain about people lumping together "rogue-like" games from now on.

I'm not being dismessive. I'm just confused why in your original post you think they lumped everything under D&D when they *literally* didn't because it says "and gaming". Your complaint would be valid if it just said D&D but it doesn't.

Your reply is literally dismissive, regardless of intention or not, you did not ask questions you explained why their frustration was invalid

If you say so. I pointed out from the start why the shop clearly weren't lumping all TT under D&D, thus challenging the criticism in the original post. I remain baffled as to why the sign saying "and gaming" means only D&D. A dislike of D&D and it's ubiquitousness does not make it bad.

You will also note there are other games on the next shelf with a different label. At some point, the vague labeling +games makes the whole system meaningless, especially for ppl who are browsing with knowledge.

The other games appear to be Board Games, so not unreasonable they'd be on their own shelf. We can't see the sign they had. The shelf in question says D&D and Gaming. I see on the shelf D&D and other TT games, so seems accurate to me. I'm not sure it's vague but I guess some might think so.

But ultimately, the sign does NOT suggest the Pathfinder, Warhammer RP and all the other games on that shelf "are D&D" as the OP suggested. That is what I have been responding to, as *and Gaming" includes all of them. If it just said "D&D" Arthur would have a point and I'd not have responded.