Comment on “Clerical Amateur Sage Abilities”

I wanted to address your point in the latest post about not getting any comments. Some thinking brings me to these points:

(A) You're working constantly on elements of the game the average DM doesn't care about, has not or cannot conceive of, or actively opposes as "not fun."

(B) Even your unfinished ideas, with calls for us to critique and take apart, are usually more detailed than what any of us has arrived at.

(C) You have wide-ranging knowledge, a long history of blog posts on many D&D topics, and a reputation for shutting down, with various levels of angriness, those who make the same old tired arguments or who fail to do their homework before commenting. (This one doesn't dissuade me personally but for those with less time to look up old posts or sit down and ruminate, it can be a killer.)

Add these up and the result is that unless I think I have a solid point, I don't say anything. My most frequent reaction to a new Tao post is "wow, that's really cool; if my passion for the game resurges, that's one more thing I'll want to think about; I'll probably never be satisfied doing it the old way." There's no reason to write that on every single post.

I comment as often as I want to, but I try to avoid posting something if it's just going to be talking about how much I like it and so on. Would you prefer that I (or others) do so?

I can probably rewrite this again ... or I could go try and restart my D&D brain for the umpteenth time. The latter would do a lot more for me.