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What's Up With D&D? for Monday, 2 January, 2012
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<blockquote data-quote="Windjammer" data-source="post: 5763985" data-attributes="member: 60075"><p>Pretty much this. I loosely recall her writing a holiday report (or was it even a honeymoon?) where she and her partner travelled to Munich and Paris, alleging that they saw teens with Mordenkainen's ME books (plural!) under their arm at Munich main square.</p><p></p><p>I've lived at Munich until 2010 for some time, and let me tell you, there's one FLGS in town, rather remote from that main square in a back alley, and chances of teenagers (!) carrying around several copies of that book in broad daylight is... not just a white lie, it's so implausible that it's obviously false to anyone familiar with the places Shelley wrote about. She simply banked on the fact that chances of her readership being sufficiently familiar with these places would be negligibly small (and right she was). I mean, hey, teenagers carrying around D&D books in European metropoles, that sounds cool, doesn't it? Too bad I know the FLGS owner, and have it on personal authority that the number of people who even bother to buy 4E stuff anymore are down to 4 people. 1 me, 1 a friend a I know - I guess Shelley saw the other two? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>Now that throw away reference to Munich is a wholly unimportant, banal detail in her writing, but it reminded me once again that <em>a</em>) most of this is probably contrived where it isn't simply exaggerated for greater effect, and <em>b</em>) serves a naked marketing purpose. Product placement anyone?</p><p></p><p>Honestly, I'd rather read RPG forums before wasting time on one of her articles. While forums abound with <em>a</em>'s they at least don't stuff <em>b</em>'s down your throat while you're at it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Windjammer, post: 5763985, member: 60075"] Pretty much this. I loosely recall her writing a holiday report (or was it even a honeymoon?) where she and her partner travelled to Munich and Paris, alleging that they saw teens with Mordenkainen's ME books (plural!) under their arm at Munich main square. I've lived at Munich until 2010 for some time, and let me tell you, there's one FLGS in town, rather remote from that main square in a back alley, and chances of teenagers (!) carrying around several copies of that book in broad daylight is... not just a white lie, it's so implausible that it's obviously false to anyone familiar with the places Shelley wrote about. She simply banked on the fact that chances of her readership being sufficiently familiar with these places would be negligibly small (and right she was). I mean, hey, teenagers carrying around D&D books in European metropoles, that sounds cool, doesn't it? Too bad I know the FLGS owner, and have it on personal authority that the number of people who even bother to buy 4E stuff anymore are down to 4 people. 1 me, 1 a friend a I know - I guess Shelley saw the other two? :P Now that throw away reference to Munich is a wholly unimportant, banal detail in her writing, but it reminded me once again that [I]a[/I]) most of this is probably contrived where it isn't simply exaggerated for greater effect, and [I]b[/I]) serves a naked marketing purpose. Product placement anyone? Honestly, I'd rather read RPG forums before wasting time on one of her articles. While forums abound with [I]a[/I]'s they at least don't stuff [I]b[/I]'s down your throat while you're at it. [/QUOTE]
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