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<blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 4878125" data-attributes="member: 43283"><p>And yet Monte Cook is also one of the first people to say that he doesn't use all the rules in the book and generally does what feels right to him at the time. I consistently hear him say that the rules are there for the people that _want_ them and everyone else should just ignore them.</p><p></p><p>I think part of the problem you experience is that an awful lot of the talk that goes on about the game is mechanical stuff. The people that use their judgment? They're generally not running around on the boards asking technical questions.</p><p></p><p>In other words, by and large there's a big chunk of folks that just don't care and you hear very little from them.</p><p></p><p>Was 3E designed with system mastery in mind? Yup. Monte is totally up front about it.</p><p></p><p>WotC estimates that there's some 6 million people playing D&D. If you assume every single person on ENWorld and rpg.net is A) A unique account, and B) Actively playing D&D, you get a bit over 100k. That's a pretty small overall percentage. The reality is that there's a bunch of cross-over accounts, all kinds of people aren't actually playing _any_ rpg, a chunk of them playing (and not playing) hate D&D with a frothing hatred, and an awful lot of folks aren't posting on the internet to say how awesome their game is/was but to complain about this or that problem and try to figure out some specific solution, or to create something new within the ruleset.</p><p></p><p>So I think part of the reason you're seeing what you see is a matter of where you're hanging out.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah. The main thing that's changed over the years is the ease and speed of communication between the fans of rpgs. No longer is each gaming group relatively isolated and constantly reinventing the wheel or desperately searching Dragon magazine for ideas/suggestions to fix problems or create new bits. The casual rpg player may or may not bother popping online but all the hardcore people have places to hang out and strut their stuff; so they do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scurvy_Platypus, post: 4878125, member: 43283"] And yet Monte Cook is also one of the first people to say that he doesn't use all the rules in the book and generally does what feels right to him at the time. I consistently hear him say that the rules are there for the people that _want_ them and everyone else should just ignore them. I think part of the problem you experience is that an awful lot of the talk that goes on about the game is mechanical stuff. The people that use their judgment? They're generally not running around on the boards asking technical questions. In other words, by and large there's a big chunk of folks that just don't care and you hear very little from them. Was 3E designed with system mastery in mind? Yup. Monte is totally up front about it. WotC estimates that there's some 6 million people playing D&D. If you assume every single person on ENWorld and rpg.net is A) A unique account, and B) Actively playing D&D, you get a bit over 100k. That's a pretty small overall percentage. The reality is that there's a bunch of cross-over accounts, all kinds of people aren't actually playing _any_ rpg, a chunk of them playing (and not playing) hate D&D with a frothing hatred, and an awful lot of folks aren't posting on the internet to say how awesome their game is/was but to complain about this or that problem and try to figure out some specific solution, or to create something new within the ruleset. So I think part of the reason you're seeing what you see is a matter of where you're hanging out. Yeah. The main thing that's changed over the years is the ease and speed of communication between the fans of rpgs. No longer is each gaming group relatively isolated and constantly reinventing the wheel or desperately searching Dragon magazine for ideas/suggestions to fix problems or create new bits. The casual rpg player may or may not bother popping online but all the hardcore people have places to hang out and strut their stuff; so they do. [/QUOTE]
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