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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5592174" data-attributes="member: 4937">I would say that in Tracy's case, it was because he's a great game designer and a really nice guy he was being a douche (as you put it).Everyone's got buttons and in many cases a person's strengths are also their biggest weaknesses (and vica versa).  I didn't appreciate the BoVD much either and I thought the whole 'adult' content was an explotive marketing device especially associated with game that has broad appeal across age groups.   But, unlike Tracy, I'm pretty far removed from this argument, so for me its mostly an intellectual exercise I can stay largely detached from.   Tracy is and was at that fights exact center early in D&D's gaming history.   More than any other individual, Tracy is responcible for saying, "Just because this is a game for adults, doesn't mean that we have to exclude children from it.", and for fighting the fight for age group inclusive content.   More than any other person who ever lived, Tracy is responcible for arguing that maturity in a RPG doesn't have to mean obscenity, mysogyny, occult references or gratuitous violence  and helped create the adventures that proved it.  So naturally, when he sees the game he loves trending in a direction he doesn't believe it should take, he's going to get worked up about it.I'd bet however he would regret some of his more heated rhetoric during that period.UPDATE: I just went back and read Mr. Hickman's 9/11/2002 rant, and while it does still strike me as overheated (trashing a game really isn't comparable to murdering people) and unwise, I also find that distance tends to make the heat cool a bit and his feelings on the matter clearer and more understandable.   Eight years later he strikes me as less angry than anguished.</blockquote>

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