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<blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 5332135" data-attributes="member: 10177"><p>My experience taught me that listening to people who criticize RPG's means I would not have played a lot of RPG's that I have played. They focus on maybe 4 or 5 things that bothered them and then burn the house down because of them. Plus that vast majority of internet critics never play the RPG's they criticize, or maybe played one session. I have learned that to truly understand and learn a game you have to sit down and play it.</p><p></p><p>Which are all reasons why I quit writing reviews. I now find people who like an RPG I am interested in it, ask them why they like it, then give it a try myself when I can. Sometimes it has taken me a number of years to find people to give it a try with, but more often than not I have found I like an RPG better than any number of so called "critics" said I would, whether I liked them enough or not based on my own opinion to continue playing them.</p><p></p><p>I have even been lucky enough to have found two groups, on nearly three years old now, where all we do is play RPG's on a rotating schedule simply to try them out. So now I can talk about Jovian Chronicles, Gear Kreig, Paranoia, EPIC rpg, Twilight 2000, Aces and Eights, CORTEX, Eclipse Phase, Go fer yer Gun, Gamma World 1E, Swords and Wizardry, Warhammer 2E, Hackmaster Basic, GURPS 4E, Shadowrun 4E, Legends of the 5 Rings 3E and 4E, and a number of other games as someone who has actually played them, and played them for a number of weeks so that we actually figured out how all the rules work and how well they are in real play.</p><p></p><p>So obviously we will have to disagree on who is the best source for good knowledgeable information for a given RPG. I personally prefer people who know what they are talking about rather than people who read it over, and maybe played it a night or two, and think they really know the game in question.</p><p></p><p>If they did know, and I listened to their "expert" opinions, I would like far fewer RPG's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Treebore, post: 5332135, member: 10177"] My experience taught me that listening to people who criticize RPG's means I would not have played a lot of RPG's that I have played. They focus on maybe 4 or 5 things that bothered them and then burn the house down because of them. Plus that vast majority of internet critics never play the RPG's they criticize, or maybe played one session. I have learned that to truly understand and learn a game you have to sit down and play it. Which are all reasons why I quit writing reviews. I now find people who like an RPG I am interested in it, ask them why they like it, then give it a try myself when I can. Sometimes it has taken me a number of years to find people to give it a try with, but more often than not I have found I like an RPG better than any number of so called "critics" said I would, whether I liked them enough or not based on my own opinion to continue playing them. I have even been lucky enough to have found two groups, on nearly three years old now, where all we do is play RPG's on a rotating schedule simply to try them out. So now I can talk about Jovian Chronicles, Gear Kreig, Paranoia, EPIC rpg, Twilight 2000, Aces and Eights, CORTEX, Eclipse Phase, Go fer yer Gun, Gamma World 1E, Swords and Wizardry, Warhammer 2E, Hackmaster Basic, GURPS 4E, Shadowrun 4E, Legends of the 5 Rings 3E and 4E, and a number of other games as someone who has actually played them, and played them for a number of weeks so that we actually figured out how all the rules work and how well they are in real play. So obviously we will have to disagree on who is the best source for good knowledgeable information for a given RPG. I personally prefer people who know what they are talking about rather than people who read it over, and maybe played it a night or two, and think they really know the game in question. If they did know, and I listened to their "expert" opinions, I would like far fewer RPG's. [/QUOTE]
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