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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dirtypool" data-source="post: 8952037" data-attributes="member: 7033897">The players having issues with D&D in the 90's isn't a conclusion of the documentary, and thus is in no way suspect.  I get that you now want to present as some serious academe rendering judgement on this documentary as lacking rigor because it does a thing you were unaware that documentary filmmakers routinely do, but while you're obsessing over that tree - you are missing the forest completely.The documentary was brought up as a source for some people acknowledging that they began playing Vampire: The Masquerade out of a distaste for Dungeons & Dragons, something the OP categorically declared that no one had ever done.  The remaining 87 minutes of the films run time is completely irrelevant to that point.You're correct that we will not reach a satisfactory conclusion, either because you are stuck on attacking the veracity of the documentary because of some propensity toward the pedantic or because you are deliberately turning it into some straw man to attack so that the conversation cannot be allowed to entertain the notion that yes there was an element of backlash against D&D in the 1990's and not solely in 2009 when Pathfinder launched as the OP had claimed.Either end is completely unnecessary on your part.</blockquote>