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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 424858" data-attributes="member: 5137">Honestly, my dream project is rather esoteric and unlikely to get anyone here excited - I'm very interested in roleplaying as a modern oral tradition, and I'd love to fund a sizable research group to start putting together a model for how oral traditions (from a variety of times and cultures) work, and then start working on ways to incorporate the better aspects of those into roleplaying.For example, some storytellers (such as the central-african griot) had formal (but unwritten) methods for tailoring their story to their audience. I'd love to get my hands on the (hypothetical) guide book for that, even if there were only one or two things I don't already know how to do.There's plenty of other stuff I'd want to do, but most of it is in a similar vein - specific, GM-skill oriented studies to allow me to continue to perfect my craft.While I'd be tempted to vanity publish my settings, I already do that somewhat (albeit poorly, on my web page), and there'd be no reason to make a living at it anymore. And I'm not convinced that publishing one of my settings would provide as much to the roleplaying community as the more boring projects I'd aim for.</blockquote>