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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8220494" data-attributes="member: 16814">Yeah, as I noted, there's a wide acceptance that different cuisines exist, and even a strong movement to sampling them.  This is somewhat lacking in the RPG community, which, due to many factors, tend to support picking a game and sticking to it.  Which, if you ask me, is a large part of the equation as to why it's so difficult to talk about these things without emotional responses.And yet, when I take such pains, I still get the pushback, because then it switches to hostility at the question about experience.  "Do you have experience with other game approaches and systems that don't look like D&D" is not received any better, no matter how politely or carefully it's wrapped.  Most people avoid answering this question, because they feel like it's asking them to admit ignorance, or it's a trap that will be slammed shut once they admit that ignorance.  If they do have experience -- like yourself (and I didn't assume you had no experience, you're welcome to go back and reread) -- it's can be wielded like a club, as you did, to level accusations of elitism.I mean, you still haven't said one word on what it is you don't like or what it is you do, you've just engaged the "you're acting elitism" angles, and I've asked.  More than once.Yes, it's hard to engage a topic if one side won't talk about it, but insists they have the high ground to call out elitism....</blockquote>

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