@wizz said in Midnight MUSH:
@wildbaboons said in Midnight MUSH:
It's more that some outspoken posters given the impression of wide spread disdain.
FATE's an award-winning, popular system. I was more baffled by the intensity of TNP's opinion and a little frustrated with the way they presented it than concerned they were right, but it's whatever.
I really don't think the system matters very much at all. Pick any one and you'll have a tiny percentage of people that are enthused about it and will play it, another tiny percentage that will avoid it, and then an overwhelming majority that are completely indifferent to the choice and do not care one way or the other.
It only matters, in so much that virtually no one that logs in randomly is going to go, 'okay I'll come back as soon as I read these books!' People want to just log in and play. So someone is going to have to invest a huge amount of effort into selling the game to people and acclimating them to a new system, making it fun for them as they do it, and if that happens then people will try it out. If someone isn't prepared to do that, then they won't. It's really simple.
Tons of people kid themselves and say, 'oh yeah that sounds like a fun game, I'll definitely invest the time to get involved, get stories going, AND learn a system while doing it'. Then they get distracted by something and they are gone. That's normal. So someone wanting to get a game going has to pretty much have more enthusiasm than other people, or be reliant on someone else that does.