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(A thread in general support of D&D and the Hobby, when so many other current threads speak of despair and doom, and the fall of the game. It is not meant in humor, for the situation is too serious for humor. However, it is not meant literally, either. It merely seeks to give support.)
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D&D's Army!
Dedicated to preserving D&D, in all editions and all forms.
Dedicated to the memory of Dragon and Dungeon Magazines in print form, and to their continued existence in online form.
Dedicated to Polyhedron Magazine and the RPGA.
Dedicated to the OGL and all the games like D&D that draw in new gamers.
Dedicated to all the D&D and RPing messageboards, their preservation, and their health.
Dedicated to online D&D, online products, and maintaining and expanding the hobby on the Internet.
Dedicated to our fellow Gamers.
Dedicated to our Friendly Local Gaming Shops.
Dedicated to our online gaming stores.
Dedicated to our presence on E-Bay.
Dedicated to our Game Designers, past, present, and future.
Dedicated to all who have worked in the gaming industry, past, present, and future.
Dedicated to all who defend our Hobby from the competition and economic woe.
Dedicated to the memory of those who were the Founders of the Hobby.
*** Dedicated to the preservation of D&D and of the Hobby, forever. ***
In dedication to them all, I declare the creation of D&D's Army.
I will sign the charter:
Edena_of_Neith
Who will sign, and proclaim their support for D&D's Army?
If you wish to sign, place your name on this post.
Join me, in declaring your eternal support for D&D and our Hobby.
Because no matter what happens, our game will endure.
I speak out against the doomsayers, I say they are wrong, I say D&D will survive and flourish. Our game, and our Hobby, will be around centuries from now. It will remain and it will triumph, over all the adversity.
Just put your name down, and declare you are a part of D&D's Army!
I have no other answer to the doom and gloom. What could I possibly say?
If Ryan himself is saying the Hobby is in real danger of collapse, in a Death Spiral, that is a truly dark pronouncement, and perhaps the state of things is truly dark.
What could I possibly say to mitigate the darkness? What can I do to lighten things in any way?
This is the only answer I can think of.
Laugh at the darkness, laugh at the gloom, decry a different and better outcome, take a stance for the positive.
Laugh at the grim situation, even if it is grim and everything may fall apart. What else can we do?
Thus:
D&D's Army!
By declaring that, and placing down my signature, Edena_of_Neith, I hurl laughter at the grim situation, and I give my salute to those in our Hobby, and I assert that a better future is in store for our Hobby, than the one that is so widely perceived to be fated.
Call it a shout of optimism. Call it mocking the doom and gloom. Call it asserting that a better future is to come.
(A thread in general support of D&D and the Hobby, when so many other current threads speak of despair and doom, and the fall of the game. It is not meant in humor, for the situation is too serious for humor. However, it is not meant literally, either. It merely seeks to give support.)
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D&D's Army!
Dedicated to preserving D&D, in all editions and all forms.
Dedicated to the memory of Dragon and Dungeon Magazines in print form, and to their continued existence in online form.
Dedicated to Polyhedron Magazine and the RPGA.
Dedicated to the OGL and all the games like D&D that draw in new gamers.
Dedicated to all the D&D and RPing messageboards, their preservation, and their health.
Dedicated to online D&D, online products, and maintaining and expanding the hobby on the Internet.
Dedicated to our fellow Gamers.
Dedicated to our Friendly Local Gaming Shops.
Dedicated to our online gaming stores.
Dedicated to our presence on E-Bay.
Dedicated to our Game Designers, past, present, and future.
Dedicated to all who have worked in the gaming industry, past, present, and future.
Dedicated to all who defend our Hobby from the competition and economic woe.
Dedicated to the memory of those who were the Founders of the Hobby.
*** Dedicated to the preservation of D&D and of the Hobby, forever. ***
In dedication to them all, I declare the creation of D&D's Army.
Parenthetically, photostat copies of the manuscript rules were made, and when the commercial game was published, fans not willing or financially unable to expend the princely sum of $10 for the product did likewise, copying the material on school (mainly college/university) machines. We were well aware of this, and many gamers who had spent their hard-earned money to buy the game were more irate than we were. In all, though, the 'pirate' material was more helpful that not. Many new fans were made by DMs who were using such copies to run their games. - Gary Gygax
I may not be a fan of everything D&D I'm not against it for any reason. I'll sign because I want to keep some form of D&D for whatever use it can give to me.
We can't kill the overwhelming pessimism that has engulfed the hobby, but we can take a stand against it. Not let the pessimism overwhelm us.
If more and more bad news occurs, we can continue to laugh at it, and not be overwhelmed by it. We can be optimists, and we would be rightly so to be optimistic.
Why?
Because we choose to be optimists, that's why. No other reason is necessary. We know that we're right: the hobby is going to endure.
Edena_of_Neith
__________________ D&D's Army signatory
Last edited by Edena_of_Neith; 11th April 2009 at 02:07 AM..
If you'd like, just put D&D's Army signatory (or a variant that suits you) in your signature. If you'd like to do that, obviously.
This thread won't last, but signatures do. Let's really create D&D's Army, and make a statement against the pessimism.
At least, that is what I have done (I have a signature, now, for the first time since joining ENWorld.)
D&D will survive, not just because there is a financial interest for it to do so, but because we who love this hobby will keep it alive. I have been playing since 1980, and I have seen far worse times for gaming than the present. I have seen paranoia, bone headed corporate policies, and typos that have made my eyes roll -- and still D&D has survived and grown.
Let's remember that what unites us -- in this case, love of gaming -- is more powerful and important than what divides us.
(Okay, Edena, I gave you some experience points.)
(SilvercatMoonPaw2, go to the Meta forum and ask an admin to change your name. That will fix the problem. They can probably combine your posts with an earlier account if you have one.)
__________________ What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding? -- Elvis Costello
When I pass away (probably in an old folks home), they will have to pry my books from my cold hands. And if I see death coming, I might grab on with my teeth too
__________________ We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
--George Bernard Shaw
Last edited by caudor; 11th April 2009 at 06:03 AM..
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