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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 818039" data-attributes="member: 6390">I'll get in on Azlin's "troll within a troll" thread...To compare the way D&D did in the 80's in not a very good form of reference.  What all those reference books may have downplayed was the prejudice your average gamer got.Which occassionally included a barrage of rocks being thrown at you by a mob of church women.D&D was evil, and would get you watched by the cops just as hard as smoking pot. (Look up the Stackpole Report sometime)As for: Abnormal children...I was normal. I was in Cross Country, and in Track. I liked to fight, hang out with my friends, and I spent a LOT of time staring at one of the female gamer's rather large unattributed features which were more common on an adult woman than a 14 year old girl. LOLI got C's in school, and hated school. I competed in racing BMX bikes in 1982, and listened to Heavy Metal. The left side of my hair was dyed blue, and I wore spikes.I was normal.Saying that the rest of America couldn't understand or have what it takes to play D&D is insulting, and a sign of sloppy thinking. It's not very scientific, nor is very exacting.Could you provide proof of this? Hard scientific data?I've found your "troll within a troll" subtext interesting, and while I'm not impressed with EGG (especially after meeting the man at GenCon 83), you can tell what he did solo **cough** CYBORG COMMANDO **cough** and what he did with assistance. What disappoints me about him is the image he fostered in public about gamers, his hypocrisy, and his arrogance.I liked 1E, and house ruled it for circumstances.I liked 2E, and house ruled it for circumstances.I like 3E, and house rule if for circumstances.And unless WotC starts hiring a goon-squad that can take me, I'll houserule whatever I want, since I'm an American, and I'm permitted to do such things as innovated thought.Of course, innovative thought is often frowned upon, especially by people on the internet, which was originally intended to express and exchange free thought and ideas.</blockquote>

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