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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mobius" data-source="post: 1350747" data-attributes="member: 6124">I find it funny, ByronD, that I have had exactly the opposite experience with Harn: anti-Harn prejudice.  The first time I tried to do some proselytizing over here on EnWorld, I spent a few hours coming up with my introductory post, rewriting and rewriting, trying to make it as inoffensive and positive as I could.  I should add here that I write all the time and am no slouch at getting the tone to fit the intent, etc.  I fully expected that I would get a healthy dose of "d20 roks, HarnMaster suxx ass." which I was fully content to write off as drivel ... but I was wholly unprepared for the level of antipathy I experienced.  A good round dozen people responded, calling me an elitist snob and inviting me to take my game and go home.  I attempted a couple of times to clarify the points that seemed to be causing the biggest issues, but by and large those folks were basically uninterested in speaking rationally.  I pretty much avoided EnWorld after that because it so soured me on the community.  In comparison, the Harn Forum was a model of decorum.I thought long and hard afterwords about how I could have phrased things more eloquently or in a more inoffensive manner, but I have to say that I don't know where I could have done better except on minor points.  It truly seemed to me like the folks here were predisposed to disliking anyone who espoused HarnMaster.  Now, there were only about twelve of them, but ...I see the same thing in my own gaming group, too.  I bring up HarnMaster and they all start griping about how hard it is to understand, how archaic the mechanics are ... and then dive into RMS for their own campaigns.  What ridiculous irony.</blockquote>

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