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[Mouseferatu]

Clearly the 4E fans are the level heads and everyone else is unreasonable and reactionary.

It's not about being a 4E fan or not. I think I was pretty clear about that.

Thus, it is easy to solve this problem.
This site was founded in the OGL and 3E. As an homage to that history, the tiers should be named in a manner that references 3E. Everyone will be happy.

If that's how Morrus wanted to go--or, for that matter, if he wanted to draw names from 2E, or 1E, or BECMI, or Magic, or White Wolf, or Shadowrun, or Call of Cthulhu, or Monopoly, or Candyland, or Texas Hold 'em, or rock/paper/scissors--I'd be fine with that. I might think some of the choices were a little silly, but I certainly wouldn't find any of them offensive.

Actually, I kind of like the idea of pulling titles from a children's boardgame, just to be goofy about it, but that's just me.

 

[grodog]

I'll tell you what I'd love to be able to do - but vBulletin is several years off being able to do this yet: allowing users to drag the actual forums into the order they want, straight from the forum index page. Some blog software allows users to drag content boxes around. So you could literally customise EN World's forum priorities the way you want it.

But, like I said, the software is some years off that sort of functionality. It would be very cool, though.

Regardless of whatever the front-end of vBulletin can do, there are plenty of portal packages out there that can do exactly what you're talking about: you set them up, and then they drive the user experience from your current vBulletin back-end. Some are even open source, too (like, say, Liferay, among others).

edit: And I'm apparently a Hobgoblin Soldier Level 3, although I'm not sure if that mean's the HS is level 3, or if I'm actually 3rd level on ENWorld (I can't imagine that I've gotten sufficient XP to be 2nd level yet, much less third....).

 

[Nifft]

Actually, I kind of like the idea of pulling titles from a children's boardgame, just to be goofy about it, but that's just me.

It is not just you, my goofy brother. We, the goofy, must stand together on this vital issue!

I shall repeat my proposal, because repetition is very convincing and people like it:
- NPC (non-paying character)
- Character ($3, Community Supporter)
- Electrum Member ($more, like "Gold Member" but half the price)
- Ultraviolet Clearance ($most, I could tell you, but ...)

Cheers, -- N

 

[darjr]

NPC, Character, DM?

 

[Jeff Wilder]

It's not about being a 4E fan or not. I think I was pretty clear about that.

Yeah, you were pretty clear about making sure to say that.

 

[Squizzle]

Accusing someone of having an advocacy agenda because they disagree with you is almost always preposterous. Accusing someone of having an advocacy agenda because they disagree with you about using the terminology of a game in a completely unobtrusive fashion, in a venue that supports ample discussion of said game, is always preposterous.

(And accusing Mouse of being a passive-aggressive is double-always preposterous.)

 

[pawsplay]

Oh, please. I'm not talking about any of that. It's done; play the game you want to play. I'm glad you've got Pathfinder and other 3E compatible stuff available. Seriously.

But this isn't about any of that, no matter how much you might want to make it about that. It's about a cute little naming scheme idea that people were claiming to be offended by. That's what I find nonsensical.

It's going to remind you of things that offended you? Like so much else on this site--every 4E tag, every 4E mention, every product, every piece of art--doesn't do that already?

I wasn't belittling any offense you might have taken in the past (though you're making it awfully tempting). I wasn't talking at all about any offense you might've felt in the past; you brought that into this, not me. I was talking specifically about people who were actually claiming to be offended by the naming scheme. And if someone's actually going to take offense at the naming scheme of a subscription service like this? Yeah, then I am going to belittle their feelings of offense, and I'm not going to feel ashamed about doing so.

(It's sad that I even have to say this, but... All opinions expressed are my own, spoken as a member of the forums, and should not be taken, formally or informally, as coming from any other source.)

I could respond to this, and if I did, I might be reprimanded for the manner in which I respond. So I think I'll just skip right to the point where I don't read this site for a few days so I don't encounter this kind of attitude again until I've come to a better place of acceptance of how other people choose to comport themselves in what has usually been a friendly environment.

 

[Nifft]

NPC, Character, DM?

Not everyone prefers being a DM.

On the other hand, everyone would prefer to have an electrum member.

"Yes, everyone", -- N

 

[Sammael]

Not everyone prefers being a DM.

On the other hand, everyone would prefer to have an electrum member.

"Yes, everyone", -- N

Electrum member FTW!

 

[DaveMage]

I'll never understand this. There are hundreds of games I don't like and won't play. But the fact that they exist (and that other people enjoy them) gives me not the slightest discomfort.

And that's how it is for me too with all the other RPGs that I don't like.

But, with 4E, I have issues.

It's not logical. It's emotional.

And, to be clear, my issue is with the game itself and other various changes made to the game/product line by the WotC designers and product team. I have no bad feelings towards the people here (and elsewhere) that are fans of 4E (though, I admit, I remain perplexed that people who have been D&D fans throughout the editions could be a fan considering how the game was changed - but that's a topic for another thread).