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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7598981" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I don't know that I have higher stakes, but I have higher aims.</p><p></p><p>One thing you'll hear me repeatedly emphasize on the forums is that though role-playing is merely a game and it's purpose is merely leisure and entertainment, yet at the same time it is also an art form. The stakes are everyone enjoys the game or not, and if everyone enjoys the game you've succeeded.</p><p></p><p>But that is a low aim, and we ought to be - we the sort of participants in the hobby that care enough about it to be posting in the forums on EnWorld 1000's of times, designing our own systems and games, and often as not on these boards publishing them for the enjoyment of others - aiming higher. Just as a movie maker or a novelist aims to create great work within the constraints of their budget and genre, so we too ought to be aiming to create great work. That isn't to say that I think you at all times need to be aiming to create the roleplaying equivalent of an Oscar nominee or the great American novel, but whatever it is you create, you ought to do it well.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I didn't say that there was. But my aims are to grow the hobby both in ubiquity and acceptance, and also in its maturity as an art form. That's why I bother writing things at EnWorld, because I think the hobby matters and can be beautiful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7598981, member: 4937"] I don't know that I have higher stakes, but I have higher aims. One thing you'll hear me repeatedly emphasize on the forums is that though role-playing is merely a game and it's purpose is merely leisure and entertainment, yet at the same time it is also an art form. The stakes are everyone enjoys the game or not, and if everyone enjoys the game you've succeeded. But that is a low aim, and we ought to be - we the sort of participants in the hobby that care enough about it to be posting in the forums on EnWorld 1000's of times, designing our own systems and games, and often as not on these boards publishing them for the enjoyment of others - aiming higher. Just as a movie maker or a novelist aims to create great work within the constraints of their budget and genre, so we too ought to be aiming to create great work. That isn't to say that I think you at all times need to be aiming to create the roleplaying equivalent of an Oscar nominee or the great American novel, but whatever it is you create, you ought to do it well. I didn't say that there was. But my aims are to grow the hobby both in ubiquity and acceptance, and also in its maturity as an art form. That's why I bother writing things at EnWorld, because I think the hobby matters and can be beautiful. [/QUOTE]
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