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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7411946" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Well, I think the thread is dead. </p><p></p><p>On the 'sock puppet' front, I actually read several score pages of the blog, and my first impression as I was reading had been the 'Carl' was The Tao as well. But then a Carl was mentioned in one article, and though I'm not completely sure, I think our Carl/Simon is the guy mentioned by the blogger as the one that created the wiki for The Tao. In other words, he's the blogger's biggest fan and is closely associated with him and has devoted a considerable amount of time to promoting the blogger in social media. I suppose it is OK to be a big fan of a blogger.</p><p></p><p>Things for me didn't get weird until he cherry picked which of the articles he thought most characterized the "quality" and "clarity" of the "advanced" material he was looking for more examples of, because those articles to me didn't seem to have the qualities he attributed to them.</p><p></p><p>I can't imagine there is any productive conversation to have on this topic. Taste is a highly subjective matter, and it's very clear that the OP finds the blogger very much to his taste and there is no sense in trying to argue him out of his subjective preferences. It's equally clear that if those are his subjective preferences, that he's not going to find anyone else that writes with the same "quality", "clarity" and "advanced" characteristics because his preferences are really niche compared to say what Expeditious Retreat Press publishes on the same sort of material with works like "A Magical Medieval Society Western Europe". Even if what the blogger writes is the opposite of what most people write on the art of good GMing, doesn't mean it is wrong, per se. Since it is subjective, it's hard to say he's wrong about that because even if you don't think what the blogger writes would work at your table at all, or at many tables you are familiar with, presumably he's had years and years of putting this into practice for himself at his table and everyone had a good time. We'd be just be telling each other its badwrongfun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7411946, member: 4937"] Well, I think the thread is dead. On the 'sock puppet' front, I actually read several score pages of the blog, and my first impression as I was reading had been the 'Carl' was The Tao as well. But then a Carl was mentioned in one article, and though I'm not completely sure, I think our Carl/Simon is the guy mentioned by the blogger as the one that created the wiki for The Tao. In other words, he's the blogger's biggest fan and is closely associated with him and has devoted a considerable amount of time to promoting the blogger in social media. I suppose it is OK to be a big fan of a blogger. Things for me didn't get weird until he cherry picked which of the articles he thought most characterized the "quality" and "clarity" of the "advanced" material he was looking for more examples of, because those articles to me didn't seem to have the qualities he attributed to them. I can't imagine there is any productive conversation to have on this topic. Taste is a highly subjective matter, and it's very clear that the OP finds the blogger very much to his taste and there is no sense in trying to argue him out of his subjective preferences. It's equally clear that if those are his subjective preferences, that he's not going to find anyone else that writes with the same "quality", "clarity" and "advanced" characteristics because his preferences are really niche compared to say what Expeditious Retreat Press publishes on the same sort of material with works like "A Magical Medieval Society Western Europe". Even if what the blogger writes is the opposite of what most people write on the art of good GMing, doesn't mean it is wrong, per se. Since it is subjective, it's hard to say he's wrong about that because even if you don't think what the blogger writes would work at your table at all, or at many tables you are familiar with, presumably he's had years and years of putting this into practice for himself at his table and everyone had a good time. We'd be just be telling each other its badwrongfun. [/QUOTE]
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