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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 3290656" data-attributes="member: 9213">They really, really can't compare this to free comic book day. I mean there has been almost summer after summer of big comic book movies to give FCD a push. From the Spider-Man 1 & 2, X-Men 1-3, Superman Returns & Batman Begins movies, comic books and superheroes have been in the public eye like never before over the past seven years or so. Comic books have even gotten some legitamacy in the mainstream with some of the works of Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, LOEG & Watchmen) and Frank Miller (Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, Batman Year One) as well as Neil Gaiman (Miracleman & Sandman). Even some of the storylines have made mainstream news outlets (Marvel's Civil War, The Death Of Superman).You have filmmakers & screenwriters moonlighting as comicbook writers which in some cases brings people who otherwise wouldnt have picked up a comic book to do so without much of a stigma (Joss Whedon on Astonishing X-men, Kevin Smith on Green Arrow, Daredevil, Richard Donner on Superman, J.M Strayzinski on Supreme Power, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man and soon Thor. Hell the president of BET has been writing Black Panther for almost 2 years now)RPG's are like comic books inbred, soon to be extinct, cousin. Rpg's have almost nothing like that. You can be sure that there are a hell of alot more 8-14 year olds that are aware of FCD than there are of D&D day. And honestly I blame...US. Well to be more specific I blame those of us who are more interested in slagging games/mechanics/editions that we dont like than trying to bring more people in to the hobby. There are so many games out there to be played and can be used to introduce people to our hobby. Don't blame City Of Heroes/Villians, WOW or any other computer games, they have their appeal, but it's not the same appeal as a pnp game. My point is all the infighting and the stupidity in our community is what's keeping the hobby from growing. If comic book fans have thier in fighting it really doesnt stop some one else from reading and finding a book that they like. Our community is different, our hobby deals with interaction and presentation, it's not a solitary pursuit. To that end we have to work twice as hard to bring new people into out ranks or risk the hobby becoming more of a niche than it already is.  And I see people activley working to kill the hobby dead and I'm not talking about D00d who is writing a memoir of his days playing D&D. I'm talking about that D00d who makes no attempt to recruit, I'm talking about that D00d who hates the idea of new people in his game. I'm talking about that legion of mopes who moan about the (and I swear to Ghandi, I want to HATE VISON the next gump that says this) DUMBING DOWN of thier favorite game. In short, the persons who are against any kind of accessabilty. My question is how is accessability for a novice effecting YOUR ability to play a game that you've BEEN playing for what must be years now? For this to work, in all seriousness, doesnt only require the big guns like WOTC, or even the smaller more dedicated guns like Green Ronin & Goodman Games. It needs the elitism to slow down abit. Just enough to indoctrinate the next generation of elitists anyway... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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