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<blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5473846" data-attributes="member: 10479"><p>Unless a primary design goal is to allow any four people who show up in a real or vitual space to be able to jump into a game together regardless of whether or not one of them has special or extensive knowledge (enough to run the game for others).&nbsp; If RPGs could adopt that ability from boardgames and card games, then RPGs suddenly become imminently more playable, in some eyes, which might be attractive as a design goal to a company with play promotion as a high priority.&nbsp; So, too, if a company is looking to leverage an online RPG play experience, and cast that experience as more typical or mainstream, then certainly the manufacture and selling of miniatures would become a much lower priority.&nbsp; The Kush might have half of the top two priorites of future RPG design pegged with his above assertion, though I would stipulate that without a push toward virtual/online gaming, some of the other transitions being observed make less sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Mark CMG, post: 5473846, member: 10479"] Unless a primary design goal is to allow any four people who show up in a real or vitual space to be able to jump into a game together regardless of whether or not one of them has special or extensive knowledge (enough to run the game for others). If RPGs could adopt that ability from boardgames and card games, then RPGs suddenly become imminently more playable, in some eyes, which might be attractive as a design goal to a company with play promotion as a high priority. So, too, if a company is looking to leverage an online RPG play experience, and cast that experience as more typical or mainstream, then certainly the manufacture and selling of miniatures would become a much lower priority. The Kush might have half of the top two priorites of future RPG design pegged with his above assertion, though I would stipulate that without a push toward virtual/online gaming, some of the other transitions being observed make less sense. [/QUOTE]

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