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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5172958" data-attributes="member: 8835">Having once been approached to turn my D&D campaign web site into a movie, I can say it certainly is possible.I think part of the problem with analogies, is that when you give an analogy, some % of people will get the core point you were trying to make, and the rest will try to find holes where the analogy doesn't fit.  To quote Dr. Horrible, "It's not a perfect metaphor."For example, when I have worked on some people's PCs who get confused about memory and disk space, I give them an analogy where memory is like the space on your desk where you do your work, and hard drive space is like your book shelf or drawers, where you store the stuff you're not working on at the time.Somebody on here is going to quibble about my analogy, despite the fact that as a degreed, published, and 20+ years experienced computer person, I actually know what I'm talking about and am satisfied with the parallels of the comparison, and the results of using it.In the same vein that some folks are going to argue with my analogy (of which one will have a comparable background, the other won't), a fairly large percentage of us on this forum don't have film experience.  But yet, we nonetheless will debate about the roles of producers and directors in film, and how they do or do not relate to RPGs.  Something of which we have very little first hand experience.Perhaps that's a corollary to Celebrim's idea that analogies don't help.</blockquote>

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