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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9449712" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Is any of this actually useful for someone who wants to play, rather than run? Because I already run a game and I don't have the mental capacity to run a second.I'm aware. I tried to play them. At least half a dozen different systems I was already certain, or at least quite confident, that I would enjoy. I spent the first few months looking for just 4e. I then expanded to include several other games, including 13A, Masks, Dungeon World, and SR5. After spending a few months trying and failing to find those, I expanded further, accepting PF1e (2e was still very fresh at the time so I was hesitant on it) and 3.5e D&D. Finally, after another few months of bupkis (I had one game I managed to pull together from a handful of different folks....the group didn't gel and it collapsed after the fifth session), I broke down completely and started applying for 5e games. Game after game after game after game, I was not picked among the applicants. Then when I finally was? Both games I applied to failed within the first month.I tried. Hunting for a gaming group had proven completely fruitless. So if purely pursuing my own interests got me absolutely nowhere after more than a year's worth of work, I figure I have nothing to lose from activism. It's not like I'm losing out on something else I would've enjoyed more, because as far as my experience has shown, the things I enjoy more don't exist.Er...do you have an example of this? Because frankly it just comes across as dismissing pretty valid and serious complaints (like, as noted, the misogynistic comments from Gygax)--TTRPGs still have some pretty big issues with being a "boys club" and treating women extremely poorly--as merely being someone trying to exploit an easy target for self-promotion purposes.</blockquote>

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