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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1861788" data-attributes="member: 172">That's not a very good attitude to have. Reminds me of when the old president of Paizo threw a hissy fit because people were complaining about the Annuals and stopped putting them out altogether. The way to fix something that is being complained about is not to make it worse.Obviously, art is very subjective. That said, obviously, lots of people don't like the "flensed look" that appeared in many bastion products.If it becomes clear that lots of people feel this way, you have a choice: appeal to those people or stick with your vision/artist and accept you will turn some people off. That any two people will view the art differently will not change the fact that some (many?) people don't like it. That is something you will have to deal with.RPGs are about brining gamer's ideas to life. Art can be an important catalyst in that process. I would not discard it so easily. The topic of the thread was why, when it possesses many qualities that gamers would nominally like, Oathbound isn't talked up much. People answered, giving their honest reasons, as personal as they may be. I don't see that you have a place to begrude them that. I don't think anyone expects your setting (or any other) to be all things to all people.I personally don't see metaplot as a problem in Oathbound. Those who do clearly need to get a time machine and follow vampire for a few years before its reincarnation. Or try to think back to when their character got goofed up by the time of troubles in FR.Again, this is not a point I sympathize with. I think that odd races is Oathbound's selling point. If I specifically wanted a game that featured or accomodated odd race, Oathbound is a settig I would consider for that reason. But one man's junk is another man's treasure, and you can't really do much about the fact that there are a lot of people out there who like a comfortable and familiar pallette of races. It's their opinion and they have the right to express it. There is no objectivity and I don't think anyone claimed there was.</blockquote>

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