When I go to the opera I expect more than a few card boxes on the stage where I have to imagine what they are singing during the whole show. And you know what? I pay for them to provide the entertainment, operas are not exactly cheap.
So when someone plays boxes with SoR (to be on topic
), it is reasonable to expect them to provide some boxes to entertain. And if you are a into the game, and not just playing by yourself, you bring along boxes yourself. Share and enjoy.There you are then, happyly playing boxes, but the novelty starts to wear off, you have outgrown your fun with the current boxes and want to add to it, to keep it from going stale. Over time you add some more boxes and SoR brings the same boxes along as before, but says it will bring more soon. You add some more boxes, as does everybody else, SoR brings the same every time and speaks of the fabled soon boxes. Untill one day you stop to ask for more fabled boxes because you know it is pointless to ask, you just have to wait and enjoy to play with the boxes everybody and you brings along.
...Or go play boxes somewhere else...
And that is the problem SoR is faceing (weeeell, one of them, but let's stay on topic), I think, a lot of boxes by us and the GMs, barely nothing from SoR (as in the saga). Some are happy to keep adding boxes, other are not. SoR isn't the only game, and hence other games can appear to move along more swiftly and to be adding more. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, if this is true remains to be seen.
P.S. Shopping carts makes excellent forts as well.
