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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 412260" data-attributes="member: 1620">Sheesh, if you think this is bad you should see the back-and-forth I'm having with a guy over on PEG's Weird War 2 list. He is bitching because PEG didn't include more details on guns, like rules for how they each react to elements such as rain,&nbsp; statistics on how loud they are, and details for how they are used. As he put it, to paraphrase, &quot;not everyone who buys an rpg set in WWII is a gun nut and so the writer should include a page on how to use guns.&quot;When I pointed out that he should do the research on such minutia himself (going so far as to even give him the keywords to punch into google) rather than waste space in an rpg book with this sort of data, he basically said that the rpg company is beholden to the consumer to teach the latter EVERYTHING they might need to know about the material covered in their games, including, as one of his examples, explaining just what the various parts of the guns are and how each is loaded. Talk about fostering GMs and players that are unable to think for themselves or apply common sense and imagination to a game ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steve Conan Trustrum, post: 412260, member: 1620"] Sheesh, if you think this is bad you should see the back-and-forth I'm having with a guy over on PEG's Weird War 2 list. He is bitching because PEG didn't include more details on guns, like rules for how they each react to elements such as rain, statistics on how loud they are, and details for how they are used. As he put it, to paraphrase, "not everyone who buys an rpg set in WWII is a gun nut and so the writer should include a page on how to use guns." When I pointed out that he should do the research on such minutia himself (going so far as to even give him the keywords to punch into google) rather than waste space in an rpg book with this sort of data, he basically said that the rpg company is beholden to the consumer to teach the latter EVERYTHING they might need to know about the material covered in their games, including, as one of his examples, explaining just what the various parts of the guns are and how each is loaded. Talk about fostering GMs and players that are unable to think for themselves or apply common sense and imagination to a game ... [/QUOTE]

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