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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 2427089" data-attributes="member: 4682">I read this post and had to shake my head. *ahem* <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />[Yawn]... No kidding! Ok. Complaining about the Realms books is almost never complaints about rules. It's complaints about the fluff. Bringing up rules is entirely beside the point. Almost a non sequitur.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Saying people aren't good DM's if they can't take what accessories are published and make up their own <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> when they don't like what's there is silly. Think of it this way. Say you pick up a novel that you hear everyone raving about. You read the book and it started out great but after a hundred pages, maybe you never liked the way the characters were portrayed, maybe the tone changes badly, maybe you don't think the environment the characters are in is believable, it is bad enough that you can't bear it and put it down.You talk to people who loved it. They don't understand what you don't like responding by saying, "Well a truly good reader can interpret what they read any way they see fit and make of it what they will. They can interpret it into something that is suitable and enjoyable for them. It is all in the imagination of the reader. There are great words throughout the book, and a good read is one with imagination and if they have imagination they can take those good words and imagine a paragraph they like around those words. A truly good reader can interpret absolutely anything from the writing no matter what the author writes." Sometimes it is too much effort for some DMs because the problems they find are so numerous they might as well write their own setting. They aren't bad DM's because they don't want the hassle. They buy published worlds because they don't want the hassle of making everything up. Why not just say, "A truly good DM doesn't need a published world as a crutch. It's all in the imagination anyway and imagination is the key to great DM's."</blockquote>

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