Anachronisms in Fantasy

[rounser]

Yeah, it is. You're saying that everyone who enjoys Eberron is guilty of "destroying the mythic resonance" of D&D.

No I'm not, I'm saying that I think it's poor design. Or, if you prefer, design not to my liking, and I've argued my case on why I think that.

Add it to the fact that you've basically hijacked a thread where someone wanted anachronisms in his game, and you're basically telling him "you're playing the game wrong".

What if I were to suggest that you simply don't like the cut of my jib, so you're resorting to messageboard etiquette nitpicking (maybe later we'll move on to calls of "troll"), similarly to the semantics nitpicking earlier, rather than actually discussing. It's weak.

So, if that's not rude, what is?

Arguing a point you don't like on a discussion board, clearly.

 

[hong]

Indeed, they were extreme examples to drive home a point.

IOW, strawmen.

 

[hong]

No it's not. Not everyone thinks of the game in the same way I do. I just think compromising the game's mythic themes too much with high technology is a mistake.

http://www.starwars.com

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nausicaa/

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/totoro/

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/laputa/

And

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/

for anyone who ever thinks trains in fantasy must be bad.

 

[Orius]

Glech. What I don't get is how people can find a culture that makes practical use of magic jarring, but have no problem with a ten thousand year old civilization that has made no technological progress.

That's sort of the opposite of the high tech angle a lot of people are talking about but I do agree with it. I find fantasy histories where nothing happens for thousands of years to be unbelievable.

 

[rounser]

IOW, strawmen.

To illustrate why I think it's a poor design direction, yes.

 

[hong]

To illustrate why I think it's a poor design direction, yes.

 

[rounser]

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Hong thinking he's teh winnar.

 

[hong]

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Hong thinking he's teh winnar.

 

[rounser]

Alright hong, I give in, your emoticon-fu outmatches anything I could possibly say.

You are teh winnar.

 

[Mystery Man]

So, if that's not rude, what is?

J

You have a stupid looking avatar.