Kaelik wrote:But in the Den, Myself, Koumei, Mask, For Valor, and Avatarded all run Tome games online. Compared to... No one running any online games of anything else around here.
Your opening salvo is already full of bullshit.
First of all, I am running an online game. So is Meikle. We don't post the details here, but we do in fact both run online games, and they're both not Tome games.
So "No one running online games of anything else" is completely false. Heck, Koumei has been trying to get people to run Pretty Soldier Adeptas Sororitas, not just Tome.
Also, as far as I can tell only Mask is
currently running an online game. The rest I haven't seen them updating anything in a while.
But even in total, you seriously have mentioned just
five guys.
And that's not counting in person, where I know that I DM Tome, Uber DMs Tome, Koumei DMs Tome, and JE DMs Tome. And that's not counting Frank and K, who don't talk that much about their in person games, but I have mostly gathered that they don't even play online, so you wouldn't know what they are doing.
Okay, so from the offline people, you have uber, JE, Frank, and K as the unique additions.
So you only know like
nine seperate people who are running Tome. That's even LESS than my second estimate of
ten.
Wow.
Fuck you and your 1,075 members bullshit. At least half those accounts are people signing up to troll us about how 4e/Pathfinder/Loren Coleman is the greatest thing since sliced bread. The correct comparison is people who actually do shit here, vs people who actually do shit here and play Tome games. And that's a ratio that's pretty nearly one as far as I can tell.
Here's the thing though: Most people don't actually try to design their games. They don't really delve too much into the mechanics. That's why even shit like 4E outsells Pathfinder.
So when you whine that "Only the people who contribute count!", that's a tacit admission that it's only popular to a select few. So again - why the fuck would you want to employ a very niche rule set to a mass market product?
We get it, you hate the Den, you hate the Tomes, you hate, you hate, you hate. Great. Now go find somewhere you actually like things, and be a dick over there and drive people who aren't pure enough out like the shit eating bitches they are. But at least have the decency to find someplace you actually like before you start trying to drive people you hate away from it.
Actually, I have a place I like. It's called SD.net.
I don't hate the Den. However, I do enjoy popping the bubbles of self-important people here who think they are so the shit of the RPG industry.
Blame Pathfinder all you want. But it's not the reason why people aren't playing Tome.