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You have to admit, though, camel poo is a pretty big industry. I mean, camel poo shovelers really run society. Without them, we would be forced to walk among the filth of camel poo all day long. Respect them.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought it did. BTW, reread my post, that's not on the contrary to what I said

To be on topic, I have heard of RSS, mainly by virtue of penny arcade having it, but never used it. Being on dial-up, I've just can't be bothered to get into it, but from what I know TWG is the sort of site that would find it most useful.

EDIT: Reworded the first sentence so it made sense.

The only problem with that is that Word likes to Jam up HTML. Such as taking a heading and making it an image. With a text based thing like this it doesn't really matter,  but the "save as HTML" function really irritates me.

Mozilla composer is very good. I use it.

Ok, I probably worded that badly. I think that D&D because of character restrictions and overabundance of rules is not the best system for roleplaying, and that is seems almost similar to a wargame in its depth of combat. But it isn't designed as a wargame, and so isn't best for that either. There are ways around D&D's problems, but you shouldn't *need* a way around problems, it's better to simply not have problems. But that's just my take.

Anyway, it's been a good debate.

Ok, this is a point I will give you.  It *is* more of an issue about players than the system. Personally, while I prefer story oriented games, I have nothing against those who prefer "Gamer" or "simulation" styles.  If that's the way you enjoy your games, play them that way, and repect for doing it.

The ability to memorise all the rules is certainly beyond me, but I'll take your word that it's possible. It can't be ignored though, that D&D is combat centered/focused. There *is* more of an emphasis on combat than most other things, and so you are in a way forced to adopt a "Gamer" style. It is my opinion, and that is all, that if you prefer combat-oriented games, a wargame is a better choice. I find D&D far to restrictive, mainly in how the class system almost forces you to play a sterotype. But if you enjoy the game, play it.

42, I take offece at the "writer" comment. I could easily retort by saying that it is a *Role-playing* game, and that all people who play d&D are wannabe accountants who get their fun from calculating logistics, but the simple fatc of the matter is that that isn't true, and neither is your comment.  I do spend time actually writing, yet I still find enjoyment in crafting a well-tuned story with others in the form of RPGs, such as an Ars Magica saga I am currently involved in. But hey, that's my style.

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