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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8071572" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!To be honest, I'm not even sure what you are talking about or mean. To &quot;appeal to a wider audience&quot; is the only thing I really understand. The simplest answer to that is &quot;Lowest common denominator&quot;. Effectively, 'water it down as much as possible so that it's hard for anyone to have any difficulty with it'. For example, &quot;First do A, then B, then C&quot;...might be too complex for some people. So reduce; &quot;First do A, then B&quot;. Still two choices and may confuse a very small amount of people. So &quot;Do A&quot;. Can't get more &quot;reduced&quot; than that, so that's what you go with. Basically, for RPG's, any game that has no mention of anything other than &quot;The Player&quot;, and all the game mechanics use a single d6 or deck of regular playing cards, and can fit on a single sheet of 11&quot;x8.5&quot; paper.Oh...I just re-read the last line. LOL! Must have glossed over it the first time! IMNSHO...don't sweat it. Just create what you think is cool and fun, and what you think you and your friends, people in your area, folks in your &quot;RPG Club&quot; you host at the local library every 2 weeks, etc. (re: people in your 'life'). If someone gets offended, ask why. If it makes any kind of sense to you, then think about changing it (if the offended person can give you specifics...not just &quot;well, it's just that...well...it's offensive!&quot; isn't going to cut it). Then make the changes if it wouldn't suck all the 'fun' out of what you think was, well, fun. Tweak it to be a bit more 'soft' on the wording and/or importance. If they are STILL offended...just shrug your shoulders, say &quot;Oh, sorry you feel that way&quot;, and then walk away. No point in trying to convince them NOT to be offended, and no point in them trying to convince you TO be offended; that never ends well. People are different. That's a good thing. May be painful or uncomfortable sometimes, but hey, nobody said life was all puppies and rainbows! <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The old saying &quot;You can please some of the people, some of the time...but you can't please all of the people, all of the time&quot; is just as true now as it was a hundred years ago. Trying to beat yourself up over someone else's life experiences is nothing but a shortcut to stress, unhappiness, and an early grave.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8071572, member: 45197"] Hiya! To be honest, I'm not even sure what you are talking about or mean. To "appeal to a wider audience" is the only thing I really understand. The simplest answer to that is "Lowest common denominator". Effectively, 'water it down as much as possible so that it's hard for anyone to have any difficulty with it'. For example, "First do A, then B, then C"...might be too complex for some people. So reduce; "First do A, then B". Still two choices and may confuse a very small amount of people. So "Do A". Can't get more "reduced" than that, so that's what you go with. Basically, for RPG's, any game that has no mention of anything other than "The Player", and all the game mechanics use a single d6 or deck of regular playing cards, and can fit on a single sheet of 11"x8.5" paper. Oh...I just re-read the last line. LOL! Must have glossed over it the first time! IMNSHO...don't sweat it. Just create what you think is cool and fun, and what you think you and your friends, people in your area, folks in your "RPG Club" you host at the local library every 2 weeks, etc. (re: people in your 'life'). If someone gets offended, ask why. If it makes any kind of sense to you, then think about changing it (if the offended person can give you specifics...not just "well, it's just that...well...it's offensive!" isn't going to cut it). Then make the changes if it wouldn't suck all the 'fun' out of what you think was, well, fun. Tweak it to be a bit more 'soft' on the wording and/or importance. If they are STILL offended...just shrug your shoulders, say "Oh, sorry you feel that way", and then walk away. No point in trying to convince them NOT to be offended, and no point in them trying to convince you TO be offended; that never ends well. People are different. That's a good thing. May be painful or uncomfortable sometimes, but hey, nobody said life was all puppies and rainbows! ;) The old saying "You can please some of the people, some of the time...but you can't please all of the people, all of the time" is just as true now as it was a hundred years ago. Trying to beat yourself up over someone else's life experiences is nothing but a shortcut to stress, unhappiness, and an early grave. ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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