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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 4318455" data-attributes="member: 43283">I dunno. It's a thing. Right now it's at 36.I think folks are way too worried about whether it's "good" or "bad" and whether someone out there likes it or not.Play whatever game works for you.As a hobbyist, I quite frankly don't care. I actually play games _besides_ d20. I know, I know, I should probably be taken out back and shot.I'll be honest, and let you in on a little secret...Some of the games I _really_ like? They don't even make the top 1,000,000 in book sales. Check it out:Talislanta, 4th Edition: 1,239,811Everstone (BESMd20 variant): 2,013,869Lone Wolf d20: 1,017,691Secret of Zir'An: 1,020,158Monsters and Other Childish Things: 1,806,047Ninja Burger: 1,462,752I'm going to be running Witch Hunter: Invisible World for the first time on Sunday. Apparently the system is somewhat like old World of Darkness. I've got no clue if that's good or not, since I've played WW games a grand total of 3 times in my 20 years.I apparently got lucky in deciding to run this one, as it's soaring head and shoulders above my other games in terms of popularity.Witch Hunter is currently ranked: #409,093YEAH BABY!!!!! It's past the half-million mark! w00000000000000!Look, I get that this is mainly a D&D board. Other d20 stuff gets some play, and then there's everyone else standing around like the homeless.I really don't get why folks can't just accept that some people like one thing and others don't, and just move on with having fun. It's not like most people have a plethora of people to be playing rpgs with in the first place. Scott Rouse estimated a (possibly inflated by his own admission) worldwide number of D&D players at 6 million.That's the lion's share of the rpg market right there.If I were to go by what I see around the forums, I should be having a seizure, and I don't think they make a font big enough for the sort of screaming I should be doing. My game (whatever it is) is "dead", everyone poops on it (if they've even heard of it), Mongoose is doing a whole different version of Lone Wolf... I don't think a fellow could live with the amount of angst I'd have if stuff like popularity and whether or not someone on the internet liked the game were major deciding factors for me.Face it: We play Invisible Barbie. I really have trouble imagining getting into a fist-fight about whether Barbie is supposed to be called "Drow" (rhymes with "owww" as in pain) or "Drow" (rhymes with bow).Whether or not my Barbie is called a Half-Orc or a Tiefling?  *shrug*Does my Barbie have to memorize a certain number of spells every day, or does it get to cast some power all day long? *shrug*Ken is still my bitch, and I'm going to take every dime I can.I'm in the "oww" group by the way. Not because it really matters to me. It's just how my friends and I decided it made sense. We read that and looked at each other and said, "Anyone got an idea how to say this stupid word?"We went with "oww" because it sounds like someone getting smacked. The "oh" sound just sounded like some stoner that'd go down like a punk, and while we thought "Drow" was an odd name, we could get behind evil elves.I'm going to head out now, and finish reading up on some Orders. I've got some monster hunting to prepare for in the glorious year of our lord 1689, and I need to make sure the servants of The Adversary don't go down to the first volley of flintlock fire.Maybe I'll even be able to get an Aztec sacrifice going....</blockquote>

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