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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MadTinkerer" data-source="post: 261936" data-attributes="member: 1883">The importance of BeansYa know what? I think the Bean Counters are right. After all, the Elves can make all the Forgotten Rum they want, but they can't drink it. Their only source of food is Beans.See, the Bean counters are hired to count beans, and they also can only eat beans so people think the Bean Counters are selfish. What many don't remember(as evidenced by some, but not all on this thread) is that the Bean Counters are also looking out for the Elves. If the Bean supply runs low, the Elves will starve.Now it seems to me the real problem is the Haze Brothers(if the parable is accurate). The Haze Brothers should realize ASAP that Beans are the most important thing, especially when it comes to Donut Cores and Forgotten Rums. Those who purchase what the Elves make vote with their Beans and by telling others about how crunchy or creamy their donuts are.(It seems to me that if the Bean Counters and the Elves want to please the Haze brothers with Tales Of Sales, perhaps the Elves should produce a D&D tabletop game that fairies(almost D&D players like fantasy novel readers, serious chess players or CRPG players) would like but WITHOUT completely removing all of the crunchy AND cream like the last three incarnations of Beginner's D&D did.The legions of fans (Elves? Gnomes? how far are we stretching this metaphor?) that buy the "donuts" came from SOMEWHERE, you know. They began with the fairy-sized crunchy and creamy goodness. Fairies DO like Crunchy and Creamy, but in much smaller portions. Unfortunately, the donuts being made are too large for fairies' mouths and the rum is too strong. That's the real reason why so many fairies are buying Neverwinter Mints, Dungeon Burgers, Warcaft Pie Morrowwind Soup. The Crunchy is ground up into a paste leaving creamy and the crunchy taste, without wearing out the poor fairies' jaws. If the nuts are smaller, more Donuts will be bought. The Haze Brothers need more donuts sold? Fine, IN ADDITION TO ELF SIZED DONUTS, MAKE FAIRY-SIZED DONUTS!!!! (And don't stiff the fairies by removing ALL the crunch either. If there's no crunch, the fairies might as well play Scrabble.)Then maybe, just maybe, I can get grandma to play.)Just rememer, fellow Elves: the Bean counters keep the Elves from starving and the Haze Brothers keep the Bean Counters from being out-counted by faster, meaner Bean Counters in other donut-making enterprizes. The Bean Counters aren't evil, just cranky. The Haze Brothers aren't evil either, they just need to realise that Beans are better than a warehouse full of stale crunchy Donuts and flat strong Rum that nobody traded their beans for.</blockquote>

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