In 1993, I remember sitting in the front row of the local theater with a buddy of mine, anxiously waiting for the first glimpse of real dinosaurs, while logically understanding that I still wouldn't see them.
Then, this happened...
And I no longer rationally cared if it was real or not - the tension it built for me was. I was terrified, and happily so. This was what I was here for, and - at that moment - I was not disappointed in the least.
Fast-forward to just a few days ago. I came across this interesting link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/battlefieldpress/the-dinosaur-protocol-for-savage-worlds
and I was intrigued.
Then I saw the corporate blurb:
65 million years have separated the ages of man and dinosaur. Until now.
“Some time in the 21st Century, something broke the world. No one knows for sure what happened. Solar flares, war, global warming, pollution and environmental collapse, or perhaps a combination of all of them. Perhaps it was something much stranger. All we know is that mankind fled the surface, retreating into vast underground shelters where they could wait out the centuries until the earth was habitable once more. But when we emerged from the darkness and prepared to retake our world, it was not as we remembered it. Something had happened to the world that once was. In the centuries without man, nature wound back the clock, returning the planet to an earlier, cleaner, more primal age. An age of dinosaurs. Now humanity must choose – do we fight to reclaim our past, or do we make peace with the present and embrace a simpler future? Armed with the skills and technologies of our ancestors, do we struggle to recreate former glories, or will we use the second chance we have been given to avoid the mistakes of the past? Will human nature even give us the choice? Will we exterminate the reborn dinosaurs, enslave them, or something else? What will be our Dinosaur Protocol?”- From the journals of Archivist Roebuck
And the following picture:
And once again, I no longer rationally care. I am hoping though, like in 1993, I will not be disappointed.
I suppose I need to work some more overtime to cover this new expense.
I think I need to start using the tag #tabletop-rpg for my roleplaying stuff. It seems to be where all the cool people post :)
Well, we are certainly giving it a go.
The only way this sort of thing spreads is organically, and that provides its own level of challenge. The more people who use it, however, the more likely it is to attract attention for more people who are interested in that kind of content.
Yeah the rpg community has felt a little fractured right now.
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.
Lol. I don't know about "all the cool people" but there is definately some!
That being said, the post(s) that started it all can be found here:
Feel free to read and resteem (even if its more than 7 days old!) https://steemit.com/steemit/@petersonsdc/one-tag-to-rule-them-all-roleplayers-unite
It's not much, but I like the idea. I didn't do a straight resteem because I wanted to add my own support. I hope that is okay. Felt like I was in a new area for me when it came to Steem protocol.I tried to give you a little signal boost on my feed: https://steemit.com/tabletop-rpg/@rantar/table-top-rpg-tags
It's absolutely okay. I don't own it, hell I didn't even originate the idea. I basically did what you did - was inspired by a previous post and generated content of my own.
I will check it out