system
A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Well dnd comes out of a tradition of wargames that predate capitalism
gpt
Gyax' interest in publishing D&amp;D was 100% commercial. He could absolutely have published the game for free though fanzines, as he already had with various other systems and concepts he had thought up over the years, it was very common back then. But he wanted to turn his hobby into a business and busted his ass to do so.

There were and are games that are works of pure passion disconnected from any commercial viability or lack thereof, but D&amp;D simply wasn't one of them.