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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 9520135" data-attributes="member: 9053">I think you're missing my point. Between different sites that sell RPGs, I've backed over 20 new RPGs this year. I've backed Matt's and I'm very excited about it. I regularly talk game design with people who design games or are getting into the design. Somehow you are thinking that I don't think there should be more games. Far from it!Do I need more dice? Well, each time I go to a gaming convention I seem to get some more of them. A friend and I pick up a copy of a game we've never heard of and run a one-shot of it in similar fashion.I taught a class on creative writing and there were a lot of people who were very unsure of whether or not anyone would want to read what they wrote. I told them that isn't why you're writing. You write a story because it's inside you and needs to be said. Same with a sonnet or an 10 book series of novels that take you years to finish: you write because the story is in you and needs to be shared.I'm currently involved with a thread about designing a game (taking a break from it as it's gotten very dense) but a number of people have mentioned the idea that when you design a game, there's nothing new under the sun. That 100% doesn't mean you shouldn't design a game. I think a big part of the reason Draw Steel will interest people is because of all the quirky stuff that's part of the game. That's the unique part.The different levels of success from the Power Roll? They are very PbtA/FitD inspired. That doesn't mean the game won't have really interesting rules (especially since I also like 4E...) but you have to take the rules, the way they're presented, and the setting together to make the game. And that, I feel pretty strongly about, is 100% unique.If the sticking point of this conversation is that I claim the world doesn't need new games, take that in light of the fact that I've backed a ton of them in the last few years, even if they weren't my thing, because I thought the writer had something interesting to say. I think just because the world doesn't need something, it also doesn't mean that I don't, or that the person making it should be discouraged.</blockquote>

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