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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 793395" data-attributes="member: 1025">Whole town full of slackers and layabouts, competing for positions at bars and brothels.We all gonna starve to death unless a whole lot more somebodies volunteer for the "tillers of the soil" and "manufacturers of needed goods" routines.Which really shouldn't be a problem, if you think about this as a methaphor for what we really do in this consensual hallucination instead of who we'd like to be in an RPG.Who are the tillers of the soil at ENWorld? The people who spend hours generating things like Storyhours and special monsters and gaming resources so that we can collectively feed on them.What are the needed goods at ENWorld? Interesting threads. Good replies to interesting threads. The kind of insightful commentary and praise that makes a storyteller want to slog through writing another installment.Lots of us produce these things, which is why this is a destination site for me on a regular basis. There's always something good here to feed my mind or give me new tools for my creativity.Sure we all spend some time hanging about socializing, but we work pretty darn hard at our socializing a lot of the time.Anybody can sit in the couch and watch Buffy on TV. Gamers enjoy that sort of thing, but then they haul out their creative tools and go to the effort of creating and slaying their own monsters.Sites where people show up just to read someone else's work are pure entertainment. A site where people show up to create entertainment, that's work. And art. And magic, too. Because creative folks like us, we like a little effort in our entertainment.</blockquote>

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