D&D 5E Forgotten Realms is being BETRAYED by Wizards

[Demetrios1453]

I can think of no better opportunity to share this, for anyone else who can't resist clicking through to the trainwreck and would like to play along at home.

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The best of these (although they are all pretty good) is "The upcoming release, which I haven't seen yet, is clearly another failure." There are posters on this forum who state they still refuse to even look into Volo's Guide to Monsters, despite the fact that virtually everyone is saying how good it is, due to some minor, idiosyncratic reason...

 

[Jester David]

Okay... I get this is satire. But it's still satire aimed at another poster here at these boards.

We really don't need more negativity here.

 

[Shasarak]

Something something all Chris Perkins fault.

 

[ProgBard]

Okay... I get this is satire. But it's still satire aimed at another poster here at these boards.

We really don't need more negativity here.

Your sense of goodwill is commendable, and in general I agree that negativity is not such a good thing.

OTOH, I also think it's okay to indulge in some more-or-less good-natured skewering of the type of posts that are the target here (and would argue that it's the content, not the poster, that's the target).

And I might go even further to say that it's a good thing for communities to make a point from time to time of de-normalizing discourse that's hyperbolic and entitled and itself a source of overwrought negativity. We ought to be able to point at something and say, "You know what? This is silly. Let's do better."

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

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Boy do I wish I had this as far back as Third Edition.

Oh the ranting and raving that went on...

 

[lowkey13]

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[RealAlHazred]

I agree. I can't find Airspur on the new map at all! And where's Nerath¿

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[Charles Rampant]

Okay... I get this is satire. But it's still satire aimed at another poster here at these boards.

We really don't need more negativity here.

As @ProgBard notes, I did try to aim at content, hence why I kept it clean of names. I didn't want to cross the line and make a personal attack. In defense of this post, there has been an incredible amount of hyperbolic nonsense being posted on the forum of late. I mean, satire only works when you have something to satirise. So I think that it is perfectly fair to respond to those posts with some humour that pokes fun, takes their hyperbole to its ultimate conclusion, and seeks to demonstrate just how empty the debate that they are offering is. You are right to call this a kind of negativity, but I would disagree that making fun of negative content is itself a form of negative content to be avoided, since that suggests that we have to accept that others can post their negativity and not be called out for it. I think that it is healthy for a forum to include statements that show that a vocal minority are actually the minority, and that others disagree with them.

 

[seebs]

See, I didn't interpret it as "directed at another poster", just directed at a general class of things. I can think of a couple of posters that I associate with posts somewhat similar in tone, but I wouldn't be comfortable saying "this was definitely directed at [X] specifically".

... I also admit that what I really want to do is get some of those posters to explain their actual complaint, because it's quite clear that the thing they're actually upset about has nothing to do with the threads.

 

[lowkey13]

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