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<blockquote data-quote="Firevalkyrie" data-source="post: 3931082" data-attributes="member: 57371"><p>To be totally honest, when the Golden Wyvern adept thing broke, which I believe was over a month ago, I was kind of like, "Hey, something that sounds like you'd have found it in real history. Cool," and I felt that the people who were complaining about it sounding like "anime" or "MMO" were simply people who had never been exposed to actual history before and were dealing from ignorance, and reacted much the same way that most people react to something they don't understand. That is, giving it a label and shoving it into a little cubbyhole in their mind where they don't actually have to examine it.</p><p></p><p>The flavor of Golden Wyvern is historical in nature, because REAL things were named after stuff that was frankly a hell of a lot more obscure, and real things in <em>European history</em>, no less, while Japanese martial arts techniques are named a lot of boring things that basically translate to English as "Front hip throw" and "Rear foot snap kick." I'm getting sorely tempted to name my next wizard character Golden Wyvern just so I have somebody in my campaign history to name the feat after, and if that causality loop doesn't snap your neck, you aren't looking at it in the right light.</p><p></p><p>We've reached stage two because we're over a month in and people are still complaining about stuff that has no actual basis in fact. We're also reaching a state of obsessive-compulsion, where people are complaining with increasing vehemence about something that is at worst neutral in value. I personally think that Rich Baker backing off so precipitously from Dragon's Tail Cut was actually one of the worst things he could have done, because he inadvertently gave the internet fanboy community, who collectively (and I include myself in this) has the worst entitlement complex imaginable, the idea that they could change the design of 4th Edition if they complained loudly enough.</p><p></p><p>To wrap my thoughts up and move on, I think people need to start getting over themselves and realize that their personal preferences don't reflect the hobby as a whole.</p><p></p><p>-- Fire (with apologies to Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Firevalkyrie, post: 3931082, member: 57371"] To be totally honest, when the Golden Wyvern adept thing broke, which I believe was over a month ago, I was kind of like, "Hey, something that sounds like you'd have found it in real history. Cool," and I felt that the people who were complaining about it sounding like "anime" or "MMO" were simply people who had never been exposed to actual history before and were dealing from ignorance, and reacted much the same way that most people react to something they don't understand. That is, giving it a label and shoving it into a little cubbyhole in their mind where they don't actually have to examine it. The flavor of Golden Wyvern is historical in nature, because REAL things were named after stuff that was frankly a hell of a lot more obscure, and real things in [i]European history[/i], no less, while Japanese martial arts techniques are named a lot of boring things that basically translate to English as "Front hip throw" and "Rear foot snap kick." I'm getting sorely tempted to name my next wizard character Golden Wyvern just so I have somebody in my campaign history to name the feat after, and if that causality loop doesn't snap your neck, you aren't looking at it in the right light. We've reached stage two because we're over a month in and people are still complaining about stuff that has no actual basis in fact. We're also reaching a state of obsessive-compulsion, where people are complaining with increasing vehemence about something that is at worst neutral in value. I personally think that Rich Baker backing off so precipitously from Dragon's Tail Cut was actually one of the worst things he could have done, because he inadvertently gave the internet fanboy community, who collectively (and I include myself in this) has the worst entitlement complex imaginable, the idea that they could change the design of 4th Edition if they complained loudly enough. To wrap my thoughts up and move on, I think people need to start getting over themselves and realize that their personal preferences don't reflect the hobby as a whole. -- Fire (with apologies to Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw) [/QUOTE]
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