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<blockquote data-quote="Trouvere" data-source="post: 5154834" data-attributes="member: 37250">Well, yes, I'm irritated.&nbsp; I apologize for my disagreement being phrased too aggressively.However, I think you misunderstand, a little.&nbsp; If LEW is knocked on the head and replaced with a PF conversion, because everyone (except, obviously, me) thinks LEW 3.5 has no hope, ever, no matter what we do, then that's one thing. But if a conversion of LEW to PF is being contemplated mainly because LEW already exists, however well loved it is by those considering it, well, yes, that's certainly lazy.&nbsp; It can be lazy even while it's well-intentioned.&nbsp; And if LEW 3.5 potters on in the background, and a direct PF copy of it is begun, likewise, even more so.I like LEW.&nbsp; But the setting itself evolved without much in the way of planning.&nbsp; It had been going for many months before El Jefe and others began the task of coordinating all the world information in the earliest adventures and reconciling it into a coherent whole.&nbsp; The Enworld definitely has problems as a setting for a living world.&nbsp; If you're going to make a switch, far better to put in the effort to design the setting from the ground up as a world that has the potential to last open-endedly, with both the potential for a continuous influx of new 1st level PCs who are still able to contribute meaningfully just as much as PCs of every other level all the way (after years of play) to 20th - and even beyond.I don't know if what I'm alluding to as LEW's setting problems in that last sentence is quite clear, so I'll point you to a <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4928049-post184.html" target="_blank">posting</a> from 6 months ago when we were discussing LEW's slump.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trouvere, post: 5154834, member: 37250"] Well, yes, I'm irritated. I apologize for my disagreement being phrased too aggressively. However, I think you misunderstand, a little. If LEW is knocked on the head and replaced with a PF conversion, because everyone (except, obviously, me) thinks LEW 3.5 has no hope, ever, no matter what we do, then that's one thing. But if a conversion of LEW to PF is being contemplated mainly because LEW already exists, however well loved it is by those considering it, well, yes, that's certainly lazy. It can be lazy even while it's well-intentioned. And if LEW 3.5 potters on in the background, and a direct PF copy of it is begun, likewise, even more so. I like LEW. But the setting itself evolved without much in the way of planning. It had been going for many months before El Jefe and others began the task of coordinating all the world information in the earliest adventures and reconciling it into a coherent whole. The Enworld definitely has problems as a setting for a living world. If you're going to make a switch, far better to put in the effort to design the setting from the ground up as a world that has the potential to last open-endedly, with both the potential for a continuous influx of new 1st level PCs who are still able to contribute meaningfully just as much as PCs of every other level all the way (after years of play) to 20th - and even beyond. I don't know if what I'm alluding to as LEW's setting problems in that last sentence is quite clear, so I'll point you to a [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4928049-post184.html"]posting[/URL] from 6 months ago when we were discussing LEW's slump. [/QUOTE]

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