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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jessemock" data-source="post: 1459845" data-attributes="member: 15694">This is because you’re reading as if you’re some kind of robot—and you’re not even doing that very well, because, if you’d like to inflict an overly–literal interpretation on such statements as “d20 is destroying the RPG industry”, you can’t do it by concretising the word for your own part.  In other words, d20 does not sit on a shelf, because it is a system; a particular book may incorporate parts of d20, but no particular book is ever d20 itself.  D20 can’t sit on a shelf.But, of course, it would  be ridiculous to make such an argument, just as it is ridiculous for you to say that d20 doesn’t do anything.When someone says that d20 is plaguing the industry (or whatever), it’s clear what is meant:  the proliferation of the d20 system is bad. Actually, according to your own roboticism, the market would not be capable of speech.  ‘Consumers’ is a nicer word, for this purpose.But, again, this doesn’t disagree with the haters; I mean: isn’t this exactly the point that many of them are making?  Are they not saying that people have begun to slurp up d20 products like crazy and that this is Bad News?   Now, this is an actual, arguable statement.  And it’s precisely what many people disagree with.  Their point is that—how to phrase it?—consumers have, by their consumption, begun to convince producers that it is in their (the producers) best financial interest to produce less diversity, rather than more, i.e. that they can make more money by using d20 for their game systems, rather than another system—which (other system) may, after all, be much more appropriate to the particular game.Yes; it is reasonable to suggest that this crowd make its opinion known directly through the dollar.  It is unreasonable to suggest, however, that there’s no point to complaining about the influence of d20.</blockquote>

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