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<blockquote data-quote="Afrodyte" data-source="post: 1755999" data-attributes="member: 8713"><p>I don't know if it's my place to speak, being that I'm a lowly registered user, but this speaks to the heart of my reluctance to be more involved with EN World. I post my ideas on the House Rules forum every now and then, and I occasionally see something in a thread that I feel I <em>have</em> to respond to, but most of the time I sit and watch and hope for some of the ideas you mention here (new ideas, community, how fun D20/D&D can be) to come more to the fore.</p><p></p><p>I probably shouldn't say this, but nowadays I wonder if I come to EN World because I really enjoy it and love it as some do, or simply because it's an alternative to the WotC site. It's often very hard for me to take a lot of the things in online communities seriously, mostly because it seems that no one is interested in what I have to say, and it gets tiresome to talk to nobody. Therefore, I tend to observe more than I speak, and I tend to speak only when asked for my input. In the rare event that I initiate something, it's only when I think that what I have to say has not been said too many times before. </p><p></p><p>That said, I don't really come to EN World for the comraderie. I'm grateful when I find it, but I don't expect it, nor do I deliberately search for it. My primary purpose here and in the chats is to share ideas and experiences with D&D and D20 systems and settings. As a result, the most I do here is read and post to the General RPG Discussion and House Rules forums. With this financial drought that I'm in, the exchange of ideas of this sort becomes more and more integral to my ability to keep doing new things with D20, but it seems that this level of interest or availability is not enough. There seems to be a lot of pressure and guilt-tripping to make me feel like I have to do something (usually donating money) to prove my worth to be among the community. Recently, there's also been a lot of talk about how ungrateful "we" are and not a lot of people asking what EN World means to the people who come here and what they would like to see done or what they would like to do to support EN World. To me, it gives the impression that there is a core group of people upon within whom the entire EN World community is embodied, and the rest are extraneous and not really necessary.</p><p></p><p>As for my ideas on how to give EN World more focus or to make it work more cohesively, I have some half-formed ideas floating around in my head, and most of them center around solidifying what it means to be a part of the EN World community and how you define supporting that community.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Afrodyte, post: 1755999, member: 8713"] I don't know if it's my place to speak, being that I'm a lowly registered user, but this speaks to the heart of my reluctance to be more involved with EN World. I post my ideas on the House Rules forum every now and then, and I occasionally see something in a thread that I feel I [i]have[/i] to respond to, but most of the time I sit and watch and hope for some of the ideas you mention here (new ideas, community, how fun D20/D&D can be) to come more to the fore. I probably shouldn't say this, but nowadays I wonder if I come to EN World because I really enjoy it and love it as some do, or simply because it's an alternative to the WotC site. It's often very hard for me to take a lot of the things in online communities seriously, mostly because it seems that no one is interested in what I have to say, and it gets tiresome to talk to nobody. Therefore, I tend to observe more than I speak, and I tend to speak only when asked for my input. In the rare event that I initiate something, it's only when I think that what I have to say has not been said too many times before. That said, I don't really come to EN World for the comraderie. I'm grateful when I find it, but I don't expect it, nor do I deliberately search for it. My primary purpose here and in the chats is to share ideas and experiences with D&D and D20 systems and settings. As a result, the most I do here is read and post to the General RPG Discussion and House Rules forums. With this financial drought that I'm in, the exchange of ideas of this sort becomes more and more integral to my ability to keep doing new things with D20, but it seems that this level of interest or availability is not enough. There seems to be a lot of pressure and guilt-tripping to make me feel like I have to do something (usually donating money) to prove my worth to be among the community. Recently, there's also been a lot of talk about how ungrateful "we" are and not a lot of people asking what EN World means to the people who come here and what they would like to see done or what they would like to do to support EN World. To me, it gives the impression that there is a core group of people upon within whom the entire EN World community is embodied, and the rest are extraneous and not really necessary. As for my ideas on how to give EN World more focus or to make it work more cohesively, I have some half-formed ideas floating around in my head, and most of them center around solidifying what it means to be a part of the EN World community and how you define supporting that community. [/QUOTE]
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