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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6102411" data-attributes="member: 4937">Oddly, I did laugh the first time a friend showed me the complete book of elves.  And, perhaps not so oddly, the friend didn't (he'd paid for it).   He was rather ... unhappy, although that doesn't capture the strength of it.   It wasn't just the mechanics that were a problem.  It wasn't the product that lost me as a TSR customer (that would have been Haunted Halls of Evenstar), but it was about that time that the group began to explore different system options because we started noticing other companies were offering up material that was just so...much... better....written.I expected some humor in this, but maybe of the more self-deprecating sort.  I also expected some understanding and explanation of what was wrong, why it went wrong, and how he'd matured as a writer and designer since one of his very first projects as a 22 old writer with a deadline given a filler book to fill out a line with pretty tight content restraints and burdened not just with the limitations of the 2e system, but more than a decade of less that stellar content and Mary Sue-isms poured into elves generally and the elvish subraces especially.  It's not like I don't understand (I don't even try to publish my stuff), or that I hold it against him or that I don't think he's more than paid back that early outing.  It's that I can't fathom how his relationship to the text isn't similar to the relationship of say Arnold Schwarzenegger to 'Hercules in New York'.  I kinda expected him to act more like an actor does when shown a clip of thier first on screen bit part or role when they are on the tonight show.</blockquote>

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