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<blockquote data-quote="Gorgon Zee" data-source="post: 8038058" data-attributes="member: 75787">As an editor and a director of musicals, I disagree. A choir consisting of, say, the top 10% of all amateurs can produce a compelling and highly enjoyable work. A book or other form of writing written by a top 10% amateur will be pretty bad. Even the top 1% will only be just passable. For solo singing, about 1 in 100 people can produce songs that move me. If I look at self-published books, i have yet to find a single one that is more than passable.it is absolutely easy to consume cheap music, cheap art, cheap books, cheap RPGs — whatever — nowadays. Everything is readily available. I really see no difference between RPGs and other art forms here. In terms of quality, when I read books like the 13th Age Bestiary, and Apocalypse World and compare them to the average self-published work, it’s abundantly clear that quality comes at a price. Just like the other arts. Actually, more so, as the free music available on the internet is more than just passable.This again seems wrong. I play music I bought 30 years ago; I look at art that hangs in my walls that I bought at Gen Con in Milwaukee; I read books my family bought 50 years ago; I watch a DVD of Wagner’s Ring Cycle that was produced 20 years ago. Much of other art is out of copyright, especially books. All RPG material (except perhaps Little Wars) is in copyright. If anything RPGs have it easier</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gorgon Zee, post: 8038058, member: 75787"] As an editor and a director of musicals, I disagree. A choir consisting of, say, the top 10% of all amateurs can produce a compelling and highly enjoyable work. A book or other form of writing written by a top 10% amateur will be pretty bad. Even the top 1% will only be just passable. For solo singing, about 1 in 100 people can produce songs that move me. If I look at self-published books, i have yet to find a single one that is more than passable. it is absolutely easy to consume cheap music, cheap art, cheap books, cheap RPGs — whatever — nowadays. Everything is readily available. I really see no difference between RPGs and other art forms here. In terms of quality, when I read books like the [B]13th Age Bestiary, [/B]and [B]Apocalypse World[/B] and compare them to the average self-published work, it’s abundantly clear that quality comes at a price. Just like the other arts. Actually, more so, as the free music available on the internet is more than just passable. This again seems wrong. I play music I bought 30 years ago; I look at art that hangs in my walls that I bought at Gen Con in Milwaukee; I read books my family bought 50 years ago; I watch a DVD of Wagner’s Ring Cycle that was produced 20 years ago. Much of other art is out of copyright, especially books. All RPG material (except perhaps Little Wars) is in copyright. If anything RPGs have it easier [/QUOTE]

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