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<blockquote data-quote="shadzar" data-source="post: 5428142" data-attributes="member: 6667746">Like I said it was in response to you, but not directed ONLY at you, but a larger problem.A problem with what you say is not you dont have the time, but the game has so many requirements that you must make the time or need these crutches. Either you need to change games, or the games need to adapt to require less &quot;work&quot;.The crutches wont really help compete with the digital gaming experience, so in order to compete, you must make a game that can inspire without the digital components, and be simple and quick enough in order to grab the attention without having to do all the work to play.Players REALLY have about as much work to do to play as DMs do now.You used to jsut be able to go to someone's house and play without bringing anything except maybe a pencil and some paper...you didnt need a book to read to know how to do thing, or some 10 page (1 gig bitmap) character sheet to flip through to play. You jsut made a decision, were handed a die, rolled it to find it your decided activity worked, and moved on to the next thing.So it isnt you, it is the game posing the major problems in the &quot;need&quot; for these crutches, because it is lame (as in broken leg to go with the crutch analogy).When the game becomes healthy again it, and you, wont need such crutches.Your &quot;want&quot; isnt the problem, it is the fact the game has a problem to make you want such things, THAT is the problem.-status trackers-power trackers-all that minutia and bookkeeping/accounting 4th was supposed to remove but left inThese are the problems for the need of the crutches, not that you are busy and have an offline and non-gaming life.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shadzar, post: 5428142, member: 6667746"] Like I said it was in response to you, but not directed ONLY at you, but a larger problem. A problem with what you say is not you dont have the time, but the game has so many requirements that you must make the time or need these crutches. Either you need to change games, or the games need to adapt to require less "work". The crutches wont really help compete with the digital gaming experience, so in order to compete, you must make a game that can inspire without the digital components, and be simple and quick enough in order to grab the attention without having to do all the work to play. Players REALLY have about as much work to do to play as DMs do now. You used to jsut be able to go to someone's house and play without bringing anything except maybe a pencil and some paper...you didnt need a book to read to know how to do thing, or some 10 page (1 gig bitmap) character sheet to flip through to play. You jsut made a decision, were handed a die, rolled it to find it your decided activity worked, and moved on to the next thing. So it isnt you, it is the game posing the major problems in the "need" for these crutches, because it is lame (as in broken leg to go with the crutch analogy). When the game becomes healthy again it, and you, wont need such crutches. Your "want" isnt the problem, it is the fact the game has a problem to make you want such things, THAT is the problem. -status trackers -power trackers -all that minutia and bookkeeping/accounting 4th was supposed to remove but left in These are the problems for the need of the crutches, not that you are busy and have an offline and non-gaming life. [/QUOTE]

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