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Message: <blockquote data-quote="taichara" data-source="post: 5417445" data-attributes="member: 16393">Oh please, not another one of these again.  I suppose it's time to crawl out of my den of lurkerdom and address this tired and tiresome handwringing before disappearing once more into the ether.I'm not addressing the WotC subject here; on that, I don't really give a damn.  It's the other slant of the OP's post that I'm stepping up to.Do you want to know where the creative members of the younger generation are, OP?  That generation that you just tarred with a single solitary brush of having no imagination, no creative drive at all, brainwashed by needing CGI and having no idea what it's like to write, to create something?They're spread across the Internet, oh yes.  I know, because I'm right there with them and feeling old as hell.  They're in messageboards and forums, on "journal" sites such as Livejournal, in real-time messenging systems such as AIM and MSN.  And do you know what they're doing?ROLEPLAYING.They create entire communities filled with world information and play in real time or -- as often -- fill thread after thread with written posts.  They create characters off the cuff or, depending on the game being played, fill out character applications that require background, personality, physical descriptions, strengths and weaknesses.  Some games are completely original, some based in a published world.  Some are both.  Post after post after post.  Thread after thread, chatroom after chatroom.  They're out there, and they are roleplaying.  These youngsters are doing all of this with an enthusiasm and a fervor that I could only dream to see at a table these days.And do you know why they aren't using the rules you want them to, the system you want them to?Because they aren't using any system at all.  They're just roleplaying.  Why would they want to shackle themselves to a system when there are uncountable freeform games out there that they can join or create?  I've spoken to some of my fellow players and they find the idea incomprehensible -- and you know, if I had started in these games like they did, I'd be thinking the same damn thing.  So, yeah, maybe we old-timers are almost all WotC -- or any other game company -- happen to have.  Because the younger generation, they don't need a tome of rules to get out there and create kingdoms and spelunk in dungeons and take down the BBEG.But tarring everyone in a generation because you don't know what they're doing to roleplay, and -- sorry to say -- because, apparently, you Don't Get What Those Younguns Like?  That's pretty damn sad, you know.  One more example for my fellow forum players to point at and say "why would we want to join you at the table?  on top of limiting with rules, we're obviously not wanted".Pfeh.</blockquote>

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