[e23-announce] Guilds (Or, Why You're Letting These People Skim 10% Off The Top)

[e23-announce at sjgames.com]

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I don't get guilds. I'm just gonna put that one on the table. Don't get 'em. My loot is my own. It is shiny and I like it and I'm the one who got his hands on it. Bureaucracy needn't enter into it.

Guildcraft ( http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=BAS6011 )  is of the opposing position. It's quite insistent that I do need guilds. It says, "Here I am, a whole dang sourcebook about the things." It purports to be a helpful tome with nothing but good things to say about how keen it is to be One of Us.

Right now we're just sort of eyeing one another from across the room. Will we ever find a middle ground, some sort of guildly compromise? Who can say. And for that matter, who cares? You're here to buy books! Why am I even telling you all this? I should just be saying that the book is great and your life is an incomplete and hollow existence without it. Which, incidentally, it is. So let's just pretend that's what I told you instead of this bizarre rambling about me, guilds, and the inner turmoil that haunts my every waking moment.

-- Fox Barrett