Why is RPG design by committee a bad thing?
>>46801652
Too many cooks will spoil the broth.
>>46801652
The same reason design by committee is always bad. People fail to notice flaws, the original vision (if there ever was one) becomes muddled or forgotten and it usually lacks any sort of unifying internal features.
Conflicting opinions, desires, and end-goals.
If Group 1 wants to have a hyper realistic mega system, Group 2 wants something he can throw together for their friends, and Group 3 wants Not!Morrowind, you're gonna have a shitty time.
>>46801652
>Why is RPG design by committee a bad thing?
It's the same reason that designs by committee are a bad thing in general.
Nobody wants to offend anybody else, and so all ideas (even the stupid ones) get included and mashed together. Then everything gets generalized and bastardized, either to the point of submitting to the common standard or simplified to the point where it doesn't feel distinct anymore. Rough edges get polished off, even if the whole point was to be rough to begin with.
Any individual design vision gets flushed down the toilet, because people are lucky to get their one concept into the game when they need to convince five other people to include it. While a single person making a RPG might create a gritty poverty third-world setting, a design by committee with end up making most settings and most systems into the most generic "standard" version of whatever is currently popular.
>>46801652
Yes.
See also: every single fucking /tg/ homebrew and group fiction circlejerk ever
>>46801744
Don't forget everyone has their own pet concept they'll want to push
>>46802846
I don't know what you're talking about, anon.
>>46801652
>Why is RPG design by committee a bad thing?
People use
"Pick the best choice, the most voted thing wins"
And this style of voting sucks ALOT.
>>46801652
The more hands involved the less of a unified idea behind it
>>46801652
Because a simple but coherent vision is more useful than a cluttered but creative mess. Its the difference between Tolkien's cosmology and something like Exalted.
Both are complex and complete, but one strikes a single consistent tone, while the other is just a torrent of "wouldnt this be cool".
>>46801652
Look man if you want a fetish thread just be blunt in the OP.
