It's always been fractured. Anyone that tells you differently is trying to sell you something.
Well, outside of the "big one", D&D, the industry has always been a fractious, relatively tiny vanity industry. Trying to do anything with a community as a whole is very much like trying to herd cats or manage programmers. It's very much a fiction to suggest that "the RPG community" exists. Even on really large RPG-centric social networking sites like RPGNet, the level of divisiveness and factionalization is pretty significant.
If anything, the interest in RPGs on Steemit has the advantage of a relatively small population, though they do tend toward partially being backers of D&D and relatively lesser experience outside of that.
I can't disagree with what you said, even if I want to (and I really DO want to).
Regardless, while the goal is lofty (to put it as a major understatement. It is, let's be honest, a pipe dream at best), I think stating that as the goal will do more good than harm.
It's always been fractured. Anyone that tells you differently is trying to sell you something.
Well, outside of the "big one", D&D, the industry has always been a fractious, relatively tiny vanity industry. Trying to do anything with a community as a whole is very much like trying to herd cats or manage programmers. It's very much a fiction to suggest that "the RPG community" exists. Even on really large RPG-centric social networking sites like RPGNet, the level of divisiveness and factionalization is pretty significant.
If anything, the interest in RPGs on Steemit has the advantage of a relatively small population, though they do tend toward partially being backers of D&D and relatively lesser experience outside of that.
I can't disagree with what you said, even if I want to (and I really DO want to).
Regardless, while the goal is lofty (to put it as a major understatement. It is, let's be honest, a pipe dream at best), I think stating that as the goal will do more good than harm.