02-06-2013, 05:02 PM
My impression (from the outside) is that this "business" in the past once or twice helped making good money and now too many people want to have a share of the pie... and it's probably not a big pie as it used to be, with too many people trying to milk some coins (without always offering material worth any coin...).
Who cares? :wink:
WRT OSR and the like: you can choose to work on a ruleset or you can choose to work on a campaign/world setting.
At the moment I can see some really good ruleset with no valuable playing material available (and starting GMs usually need some firm ground to walk on...) and I can see some really good adventures (or world descriptions) that use existing rulesets (like Pathfinder or BECMI retro clones or...).
Personally, in this moment of my life, I'm not overly interested in complex rulesets (although they can be awesome), but rather in something easy and simple, that can be started in minutes rather than in hours, and that can support roleplaying, rather than making it still and plastered with countless dicerolls for every tiny aspect of life.
Maybe in future I'll be interested on some other aspect...
Who cares? :wink:
WRT OSR and the like: you can choose to work on a ruleset or you can choose to work on a campaign/world setting.
At the moment I can see some really good ruleset with no valuable playing material available (and starting GMs usually need some firm ground to walk on...) and I can see some really good adventures (or world descriptions) that use existing rulesets (like Pathfinder or BECMI retro clones or...).
Personally, in this moment of my life, I'm not overly interested in complex rulesets (although they can be awesome), but rather in something easy and simple, that can be started in minutes rather than in hours, and that can support roleplaying, rather than making it still and plastered with countless dicerolls for every tiny aspect of life.
Maybe in future I'll be interested on some other aspect...
He's a real Nowhere man, sitting in his Nowhere land,
making all his Nowhere plans for Nobody.
making all his Nowhere plans for Nobody.