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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bloodstone Press" data-source="post: 2294667" data-attributes="member: 12468">Sorry everyone, I just couldn't let this go: The horrible truth is that there is woefully little objective psychological research to support or refute your statement. However, what research does exist contradicts your statement (and no, I can't find a link to it).  Please, please don't get me started on professional sports.... let me just point out that very few people actually PLAY baseball or Football. The vast majority of people simply sit on the couch and WATCH... because its a lot easier.... Yeah they like to say that football has something to do with strategy. IMO, it has a LOT more to do with skill (of the PLAYER), randomness, and luck.  Chess is a game of strategy.  I have no idea who he is or why that's important. I have actually written fairly long games with no violence, no sex, and no stupidity.  Yeah I have actually (its part of my job to do stuff like that). And you know what, the vast majority of RPG book covers are void of any sort of "porn." Some books have lewd images on the cover, but those usually get a lot of flak from the community too (and they probably get boosts in sales too).  I'm not sure what you mean by "tagged," but I'm pretty sure that was just a rumor. You know, like a practical joke? I really don’t know or care about her though, so I could be wrong. Please don’t bring her up again.  And.. umm.... without going into a long speech about artistic forms and such, all I can say is there is nothing new under the sun. And no, you’re not going to drag me into an argument about the semantics of “alternatives” and “emulations.”  I think, perhaps, that you are pop culture (wrestling, hip hop, football, baseball etc.). I'm not so sure that I am.  Is it?? I really don't agree with that all.    I'm not quite sure if you are still talking about what I think you are talking about... but if you are I disagree. I think the only thing left between these poles is the hybrid video/PnP game I suggested several posts ago.  Right.    I see what you are saying, but I don't totally agree. I think things are more complicated than that.   Whoa.... I didn't even notice you said this until just now. 1. You will find no elves in any of the books I have written. Further, there are no elves in 1948 or in the Primal Legends setting. (though they are allowed for if the DM wants them)2. You know it takes time to do the things we game designers do. I wish I could just pop out all the ideas I've got for tweaking the system this way and bending it that way. I wish I could write books as fast as I can think of them. But I can't. And I have other things I need to do. And, really, other things I want to do. Remember we started from scratch just a few years ago. What if it was 2001 right now and you wanted to play a sci-fi game? A stone age game? a pirate game? A WWII game? A Steam Tech game? A lot of people reading this thread have been working real hard for the past several years to create a LOT of material. Does some of it suck? Sure. But there are a lot of gems out there too. I don't think it is right or fair for you to characterize almost everyone but Monte as doing nothing original.  I'm dead weight and should give up?? Dude, I haven't even started yet.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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