This is really a thank you thread. Thank you to everyone who posts here.
This community is a large and amazing one. Everyone is civil, polite (okay, not all the time, but we all are humans), and generally open here.
What amazes me is that several of us post some fairly personal things on these here boards (I'm one of them). What's more amazing is the show of support for all of us.
Just tonight, I read about someone losing one's brother, words of encouragement for me and my family, reminded myself to ask how F2K's child is, and read about someone's possible adoption (and sure to be ensuing legal battles).
What's amazing is the rounds and rounds of support and want to encourage that we, as gamers, as a community, and a family give to one another.
To paraphrase from Snorter:
They'd better not ask for this thread to be removed; this, to me, is what the whole concept of the message board is for.Though we b&*#* and moan sometimes, about individual players, DMs and game designers, it still remains the case that the gaming community is solid. Moreso than society as a whole, IMHO.
You can sit down at a table anywhere in the world, spot a PHB, or d20 keyfob, etc, and know you can start a conversation with a total stranger, safe in the knowledge that you are Gamers, Together Against The World!
I was asked what I was reading, earlier (while reading the original post), and I said it was an e-mail from a friend. And I meant it. Though we've never met, I don't know your real name, or even what state you live in, I still consider you a friend. And friends stick up for each other, and try to help each other through bad times.
I know a few states, and sides of the ocean, but I think I can safely say we are all friends.
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