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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 1573794" data-attributes="member: 15651">My last post to these nebulous "change" threads...Bran Blackbyrd had a pretty good summary above, but I'll put in my last 2 cents on this topic.Mythusmage, you seem to be dissatisfied with the state of D&D.  Ok, fine nothing is perfect.  You seem to think you have ideas for reinventing or revolutionizing D&D.  Great, what are they exactly?  Your "ideas" about creating a setting, guiding the charaterizations etc. etc. are all things IMO that D&D already does.  Perhaps not perfectly, perhaps it does not come out and tell you how to think exactly to do this, but it is all there, you just need to use your own brain to fill in the blanks...and I like it that way, I don't want someone telling me how I should think.What I seem to get from almost every posting other than your own is that people seem to be OK with the state of D&D as it is.  I think everyone also agrees that there might be changes that are worthwhile to make D&D better, but nobody else that I can see thinks that things are so bad that the entire D&D system needs an immediate rework (heck, people are already crying about 4.0 rumors...).  It is obvious that people here are not going to assist you in starting your revolution.When you have real suggestions about how to change D&D, not nebulous things like "it should be non-confrontational", "it should describe a setting" or "it should resolve conflict", feel free to post them to the boards and I'm sure people will offer their critique.  If they are really concrete ideas, I'm sure people will be willing to offer further ideas for improvement, or suggest why they will not work.  I would love it if somehow you stumbled upon a truly revolutionary idea that made things better for everyone, but for now I enjoy my D&D the way it is and see no need to change things as you suggest.  If this ship is sinking, I guess I'll be happy to go down with it, but so far I think it is doing just fine.  Feel free to jump into a lifeboat and set your own course, but don't expect a lot of company.And if all you are doing is trolling for attention, while you seem to be pretty good at it, sooner or later people will figure it out and stop paying attention.</blockquote>

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