AM, I've likened your devotion to D&D as being akin to the devotion of the born-again. And here you throw me a bone like this:Honestly, I'm not sure you can separate your desire to see "[your] hobby and culture" kept healthy and vibrant from your desire to see your chosen game declared supreme. Your gloating has the sick odor of both born-again religion and the team sport fan. And I don't think you see what you are doing to degrade your own hobby and culture.
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Dude, my favorite game pretty much
already reigns supreme, which is why I don't have to advocate anyone else jump on board, or complain why people aren't playing it or any of that stuff. Those aren't issues for me. I like what I like. I can accept that other people (in turn) like what they like, and I seriously, no-kidding, even though you might not think so... have no judgement of other people based on that. Believe it or not, I honestly have more dislike for Gurps and Shadowrun than I do for the forgie games. Personal preference being what it is, right? And yet, I still love Koltar. He's cool. He's a decent guy. And he's honest.
Have you ever seen me jump into a Gurps or a Shadowrun discussion? Ever? Check me on this.
But the forgies themselves as people and as a "movement" are
worth the venom. The games are blameless. Some of them are good, some of them are hilariously bad. Artists have the right to suck, and many of them enthusiastically use that right! There's no accounting for taste..ever. And thats fine.
But I see that particular cult of personality movement as being very damaging, very insulting, and I should point out that they only exist in our hobby because they parasitically exploit the vanity of gamers who are already well on their way out, who have ceased to be a part of it, who have lost the ability to enjoy it. In MMO parlance, they're griefers. They talk about it openly, practically brag about it. And until just a few years ago.. nobody knew any better. Pointing it out is easy.
Eventually I hope they all go on and become amateur improv performers or community theater guys, or they get involved in group therapy circles as psychodramatists or juicer-demonstrators on infomercials. I wish them success in that. But they really don't need roleplaying games for that, do they?