Posted to another thread, but also appropriate for this one, I guess.
Friends, ENWorlders, gamers, lend me your
ears eyeballs...
4d20+7 years ago* the Creators brought forth on this
continent world a new
nation game, conceived in imagination, and dedicated to the proposition that sitting around a table, rolling dice, and pretending to be a fantasy character is a pretty good way to spend your leisure time.
Now we are engaged in a great
civil edition war, testing whether that game, or any game, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war...
I have a dream that one day this
nation message board will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that sitting around a table, rolling dice, and pretending to be a fantasy character is a pretty good way to spend your leisure time."
I have a dream that my little children will one day log on to a message board where they will not be judged by the edition they play, but by the content of their posts...
I have a dream that one day in Gen Con, the players of former editions and the players of current and future editions will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood...
Now is the time to lift our message board from the quicksand of edition intolerance to the solid rock of brotherhood... Let imagination ring!
P.S. They may take our pdfs, but they'll never take our imagination!
* For certain values of 4d20+7, anyway.
