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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9815230" data-attributes="member: 22779">Because, unlike, say, a basketball team, where the people who are getting together are only there to play basketball, RPG gaming is broader.&nbsp; If someone at the table wants to run a new system, and no one is willing to play it, then that person is SOL.&nbsp; Someone who plays with you can only play D&amp;D with you, no matter what because you won't play a different game.&nbsp; The why is fairly immaterial.&nbsp; The closer analogy would be refusing to play 2 on 2 basketball and only playing full court.&nbsp; But, then, you seem to believe that it's ludicrously easy to find whatever game you want to play whenever you want to play it because there is this giant ocean of DM's out there just waiting to snap up new players.&nbsp; Which does seem to run rather counter to the evidence as shown by the mountain of LFG type advertisements vs looking for players.&nbsp; I know, right now, that if I posted that I needed five players at any point in time on any day of the week, I would have a group in under 24 hours.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are FAAAAR more players out there looking for a game than there are DM's.IME, the reason there are far, far more players out there than DM's is because running D&amp;D is a LOT of work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 9815230, member: 22779"] Because, unlike, say, a basketball team, where the people who are getting together are only there to play basketball, RPG gaming is broader. If someone at the table wants to run a new system, and no one is willing to play it, then that person is SOL. Someone who plays with you can only play D&D with you, no matter what because you won't play a different game. The why is fairly immaterial. The closer analogy would be refusing to play 2 on 2 basketball and only playing full court. But, then, you seem to believe that it's ludicrously easy to find whatever game you want to play whenever you want to play it because there is this giant ocean of DM's out there just waiting to snap up new players. Which does seem to run rather counter to the evidence as shown by the mountain of LFG type advertisements vs looking for players. I know, right now, that if I posted that I needed five players at any point in time on any day of the week, I would have a group in under 24 hours. There are FAAAAR more players out there looking for a game than there are DM's. IME, the reason there are far, far more players out there than DM's is because running D&D is a LOT of work. [/QUOTE]

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