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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5769771" data-attributes="member: 59082">Fair enough. That's a much larger question that I don't want to get too deeply into, unless we want to go down a philosophical rabbit-hole...but maybe we do? I'll try to answer as succinctly as possible without watering it down too much. First of all, I realize and recognize the wide variety of games and differences of gamers. I, for one, am not a "true roleplayer" in that I won't just play anything; I have no interest in "furry" games or Buffy the Vampire Slayer or gore-fests or any number of the wide and assorted (and often sordid) RPGs out there. But all groups of people are united in some kind of shared context, and that recognizing this context gives a kind of feeling of unity and oneness, that we are together in our love of RPGs (or whatever it is that we share). And that through that unity, whatever differences that exist--major or minor--are contextualized and, if not embraced, at least tolerated.By way of example, I'm a baseball fan, my favorite team being the LA Angels. I participate in a couple discussion boards in which when conversation gets political or religious, I find myself having some pretty major disagreements with some folks. A larger percentage of baseball fans hold a worldview that is very different from my own even, in some instances, somewhat abhorrent to me or, at least, rather alien. But regardless of where I and another Angels fan may differ on political issues or religious worldview, we share our love of the same baseball team and can be "one" through that.So that is my point on our being "one big happy family" of gamers (although that being said with a subtle note of irony, given that all families are dysfunctional and unhappy in one way or another). You and I may live very different lifestyles, have different ideological perspectives, but we are "one" in the very fact that we are here, on ENWorld, participating in the same thread, and in that we both love--even if in very different ways--roleplaying games.And that's pretty cool, imo.</blockquote>

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