I tweeted this little thought a couple of days ago and it just stuck with me. Really people, it’s about time to just shut up and roll some dice.
Now I know that this troll bait but let’s face it. If so many people are concerned about the future of the hobby, wouldn’t it make more sense to encourage new players rather than bitch and whine about rules minutiae and dumb assed design and business decisions? If I was a brand new player with my shiny funny dice and crisp clean rule books and then accidentally wander on to a forum. I’d seriously start thinking about whether these are the kind of people I want to be around.
If you want to support the hobby I have a couple suggestions. One don’t be a jerk. Encourage new players. Maybe even recruit one now and then. How about that nifty idea of reading an RPG book in public. And this sounds really, really crazy. Play something else. Don’t just sit there and play one game by one publisher and bitch about everything else. Spread your horizons. Spread the wealth.
Seriously people. We’ve had enough with the bickering and comparing dick size.
And this got me thinking. Have some people gotten past the edition wars? No. Not at all. Let me put this delicately. It’s over quit your whining. You may hate the mechanics of but you know what, if somebody is enjoying a game then it’s a good game.
You may not like a business or design decision that some game company made. Tough. If it makes you so mad that you will never buy anything from them again then so be it. It doesn’t give the privilege of pissing all over somebody else’s fun.

While I haven’t played along the last couple years, this I’m going all in. So there may not be as many updates as usual but I still be doing my best.
This year and the next hopefully my creative juices will be flowing like crazy. To put it bluntly my creative juices have been pretty much overflowing and I just got to let them spill forth in some manner. We’ll see what sort of literary monstrosity is created this year.
It should be great. Nanowrimo is just the tip of the old iceberg. I know it’s only November but I gots some really neat stuff planned for 2011. Sit back, wait and see kids.

That’s when the PDF for the Advanced Player’s Guide gets released for all us poor schmucks who don’t a have subscription. My prediction is that it’s going to almost as bad as when they released the core book.
I’m really excited about this product. From the play test documents that they’ve released and the awesome previews they’ve been giving us, it looks like this going to be one hot product. I feel I can say this some amount of confidence since we’ve been using the play test version of the classes in our Pathfinder games.
In the Second Darkness game, we have a witch and a barbarian/oracle of battle. The witch has been fun to have in the party and has proved to be quite handy. The player took the Cauldron ability and has been a constant source of potions for the party. The Witch has a good selection of spells and abilities. Personally, I’ve been playing the barbarian/oracle. For some odd reason, I like to play multi-class characters, spontaneous spell casters and I get drafted/volunteer to be the cleric. A solid spontaneous divine caster is just fits me and the way I play. Give me a round or two to buff and then rage. Things can get real interesting. I also did a quick test of the inquisitor during the Second Darkness campaign. The barbarian/oracle was temporarily dead and waiting for reincarnation so the GM let me bring another temporary character. Did I mention I like multi-classing, a paladin/inquisitor. It was fun but that whole Lawful Good thing just kind crimps my style.
But there’s more than just base classes in this book. Feats, class options and ton of stuff that’s going to add some really neat flair to the games. So come tomorrow, I’ll be sitting hitting refresh on the Paizo web site trying to get my copy.