"Ryan S. Dancey" wrote:
>
> I'd love to get these "conspiracy theorists" out in public. I think they're
> doing tremendous damage, pursuing what appears to me to be a private agenda
> (trying to thwart the establishment of an Open Gaming network before it
> really gets started to preserve the status quo in the gaming business seems
> to me to be the obvious point).
>
> As far as I'm concerned, if you've got the balls to speak up in private
> email about your beliefs; rumors; fears or concerns, I want you to have the
> fortitude to do it in public too.
>
Well, by definition, if they aren't speaking in public, they aren't
having much impact. :) (In other words, who is hearing them?) And,
frankly, the flood of products from 'real' companies (White Wolf,
Chaosium, Crunchy Frog, etc) and the support of 'big name' and 'k3wl'
game designers is seriously undermining the charge that is all an
eeeeevil WOTC plot to Take Over The World!!! To continue to accept this
is some sort of giant scam/hoax/etc, you have to believe that most of
the major gaming companies are headed by suicidal idiots and that people
who earn their living writing games want to put themselves on welfare.
There will always be those who loathe the d20 system, for reasons
rational or irrational, and I do not think there will ever be a time
when there are truly no other active, supported systems. But,
interestingly enough, it appears the original WOTC idea of a 'capsystem'
(remember 'Primal Order'? I bought it LONG before M:TG ever appeared!)
will come true with D20...
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