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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5726761" data-attributes="member: 2205">Which is exactly why we need system diversity.  I know one of the earlier articles in this series decried that as a "base breaker" but as I pointed out there, and this thread highlights even more; the fault lines of taste and preference will exist no matter what else you do.  As you get busier, you have to do a mental kind of cost/benefit analysis of gaming vs. other things you could spend your time on.  If the game isn't a good match-up for your tastes and preferences, that cost/benefit analysis is not going to turn out well for gamin.  Folks either quit gaming as they get busier, unless they really enjoy it, or find another game that they enjoy more.  Any "solution" for the broken base of taste and preferences and the "getting older and busier" broken base problem have to take each other into account; they run a real risk of being mutually exclusive.Housing in Waterdeep isn't system mastery, that's setting stuff.  Setting books in particular (although this applies to a lesser extent to system supplements too) scratch another itch for the busy gamer.  Where you see too much stuff for busy people to handle, that should be cut, I see an opportunity for busy people who have trouble making actual gaming sessions regularly to keep their foot in the door by picking up books and reading them in their spare time.  It's a lot easier to read a game book than it is to make a session.  I don't think its any accident that the player in our group who's got the busiest work and real life (mostly work) schedule in our group--the guy with the most absenteeism of any other player--also has the biggest collection of books, essentially having missed none of the 3.5 era books at all, as near as I can tell.  And he's read them.  He doesn't get to use them as much as the unemployed bachelor in our group, who's always available to play pretty much, but that's his link to the hobby when he's too busy for anything else, sometimes.</blockquote>

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