"If this is your first roleplaying game - save the feelings you now have. If this isn’t, try to bring back those feelings of wonderment and discovery. What did you expect when you first opened that box, or cracked the cover of the book? When you realized you could do anything, or be anyone you wanted to be, how did you feel? After your first game session, when you realized you had a lot yet to discover, did it excite your curiosity? That whole feeling of “starting fresh” is key to helping you enjoy SBRPG."
This appeared at the end of Chapter 1, and was a call to players to try and recapture that feeling of wonder and excitement of cracking the cover of their first roleplaying game all over again. Rediscovery, re-imagination, that fresh feeling of discovery and amazement - that is what is important to feel again. Jaded roleplayers, like ourselves, are too often dragged down in the mud of system wars, disappointment, and saw-it-all-isms. We forget why we started playing in the first place - we did.
This magic feeling is what we tried to capture. It sets you up for the path we took our players down, where the group decided together what world they wanted to create, what classes existed in it, what powers, what genre, what monsters, factions - everything was created fresh. It didn't take long either, all that work was often done in the first night of play. SBRPG was not the most complete or simulationist RPG, but it emphasized getting you started quick, getting everything decided, created, and play going tonight.
Our goal was to get you back to that feeling of wonder we all had when we first joined our hobby as fast as we could.
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