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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 1178545" data-attributes="member: 94">I am sure your facility is precisely the reason.I don't expect anyone to publish adventures based on Iron DM entries-- rather, Iron DM entries should serve as instructions on how to create adventures. Sure, the best entries could be lifted, printed, and played, but that's not the point, as far as I am concerned.A cliche the easiest way to get the DM and the players (and the judge) to connect with the theme. They have to "get it" immediately. Using a cliche lets me know that I can choose not to describe a lot of the tiny details, and have no worries that the entry is going to fly over the head of the reader.Because I don't like denoting the same word with quotes, twice? Feel free to reverse the order of presentation, put quotes around mythago's "lift," and no quotes around mine. No one is suggesting that mythago did anything reprehensible. So far, you are the only person who has said that.As to your point, the presentation as "paean" really only works if the author can be confident that the reader is so familiar with the source material that it could not possibly be construed as anything but. It is safe to say that the cthulhu mythos is widely accessible to the readers of ENworld. There were no fears on my part that anyone would read it and think that I was attempting to pass it off as my own.No, the difference is clear. Trying to paint the difference as cosmetic is disingenuous. There's a big difference between a CLEAR reference to an existing source and an OBSCURE reference to an existing source. I hope not, for the reasons I have outlined above. At any rate, it's a purely hypothetical and ultimately pointless line of inquiry. As I said in my previous reply, had I not been pushed towards the Cthulhu mythos, I would have used an equally accessible myth. There was no incentive for me to use an obscure reference; the point was to make the reader connect immediately.Hypothetically speaking? It sure does.Wulf</blockquote>

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