--- In role_playing_for_dummies@yahoogroups.com, "Nico Minoru"
<furou_fushi@...> wrote:


> As much as I abhor Mr. Williams' ideas about adding 'systems' to our
> RPGs (because, I feel, they take away from what original drew me to
> RPGing in the first place), if this is the only answer to stop the
> decay we must take it. But, somebody, please tell me that there is
> another way that we may keep our pure creativity and not be bound by
> any strict laws.

Adding systems isn't going to solve the problem of a lack of
creativity which you seem to actually be complaining about. Have you
ever tried it?

A system doesn't suddenly set off light bulbs in peoples heads. They
weren't created to make people more creative. They were created to
bring order to chaos.


> I fear that if do not make some kind of changes soon, all of text
> based RPGing culture will run out of steam in an incredibly long first
> act of Moderators and Players trying to treat the symptoms with rules,
> but never curing the true source of the entropy.


I doubt the whole entire culture will go to the grave. Perhaps you
will lose your steam from the sounds of it, but the problems you
outlined before of many people not knowing how to make a decent
introduction that doesn't go on and on like the energizer bunny, wont
kill the motivation of every other person out here doing this.