Drifter Bob
First Post
Berandor said:
Perhaps, perhaps not. I didn't ressurect it, I noticed it was back up again and people were misrepresenting what my point was, and I finally chimed in. I am personally glad it was brought back though because of the link somebody (Christian?) posted where Monte Cook was ranting about exactly the same thing. Thank you Christian and thank you enworld!
Monte had a very similar problem that I did, and got a similar reaction. He explained more elegantly than I did, was that it's stupid to push the fetishiszation of the rules to (and past) the point where it interferes with writing a good adventure. He appears to have serious concerns about this, and he has a hell of a lot better portfolio in this industry than I do.
As for my little 'imp' problem, well, maybe there was a great workaround, maybe there wasn't. The issue is bigger than that, it's the point I was making above. The deal is, in a document the size I was working on, you run into little things like that probably 500 times. That really impacts how the design turns out. Frankly, you end up just smoothing over a lot of those sharper corners, and in the process, writing a less interesting document.
To me this is why I have seen so many D20 suppliments with lots of so called crunch and very little flavor or for that matter anything interesting.
Some folks are more than ok with that, people think that something like a basic murder mystery plot which could be knocked out by a detect evil spell just shouldn't exist in a D&D game. I'm saying, it might be nice if you could put it in. maybe. Or at least be able to talk about it.
For those of you who have expressed your antipathy toward me, you can rest assured, your efforts are wasted. I am currently having the time of my life, I finished another writing project, I won a fencing competition yesterday, my girlfriend got an A on her test in Nursing School, and my dayjob boss is giving me a raise. I may even be going on a vacation this fall for the first time in five years. Angry people on rpg forums just aren't going to get me down.
I am glad though that a few people apparently understood the point I was trying to make. I'm also pleased that a bunch of other people were entertained by the discussion to some degree and enjoyed reading it or part of it. Again, I have to thank Enworld because this is the only place this conversation could take place with this level of relatively high civility and intelligence.
For those of you who did get hostile, I reccomend that you relax and have yourself a beer, and try to let things fall into perspective a little bit. Maybe you should think about how wierd it is that some people can't even discuss problems with a game without losing their cool.
Now that I read the 'creepiest player' threads here and on RPG .net, I have some wonderful new images of some of you angrier posters out there. I will cherish these, and I thank you for contributing to an amusing stereotype. I wish you luck with your pooping problems and all of the rest of it.
And to that small group of you who got it, learn from my mistake, do not rile up the angry misshappen masses! You never know what mischief they may work upon you. Thanks enworld for hearing me out.
DB
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