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<blockquote data-quote="Akrasia" data-source="post: 2391496" data-attributes="member: 23012"><p>Sure, he can make sweeping, unsupported generalizations if he wants. But given that he is reasonably well known in the RPG community, and works for WotC, he should not be suprised when people get annoyed with his refusal to clarify and support his claims (claims that, btw, are generally favourable to WotC, and quite bleak regarding all other companies).</p><p></p><p>Analogously, if I, as an employee of Stanford University, started making gross , unsupported generalizations about other universities and departments on my blog, I think that people would be well justified in being annoyed with me, and accusing me of being irresponsible. (Of course, I am a nobody right now, so any such claims by me would be completely unnoticed; but, as I stated above, Mearls is well known in the RPG community.)</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>He is 'on to something' if his point is that 95 percent of stuff produced for 3e (or RPGs in general) is crap -- including stuff by WotC IMO. But that is hardly news.</p><p></p><p>What is annoying is his claim -- vague and unsupported -- about non-WotC companies (both d20 and non-d20). It looks like a crass dig at the competition, one that is lent the air of credibility by his reputation as a solid game designer.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly, at least one non-WotC company representative -- John Nephew, president of Atlas Games -- commented at Mearls' blog to point out that Mearls was plain wrong, at least with respect to his company (viz. Ars Magica 5th edition is doing very well, and outperforming the company's d20 material by a significant margin). See the end of the comments here: <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/mearls/105311.html" target="_blank">http://www.livejournal.com/users/mearls/105311.html</a>. I can only imagine that what is true for Atlas is also true for a few other non-WotC companies -- and thus Mearls' generalizations are rubbish.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I've rambled on about this long enough. My apologies. I hope all is well back in Emeryville. <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=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Akrasia, post: 2391496, member: 23012"] Sure, he can make sweeping, unsupported generalizations if he wants. But given that he is reasonably well known in the RPG community, and works for WotC, he should not be suprised when people get annoyed with his refusal to clarify and support his claims (claims that, btw, are generally favourable to WotC, and quite bleak regarding all other companies). Analogously, if I, as an employee of Stanford University, started making gross , unsupported generalizations about other universities and departments on my blog, I think that people would be well justified in being annoyed with me, and accusing me of being irresponsible. (Of course, I am a nobody right now, so any such claims by me would be completely unnoticed; but, as I stated above, Mearls is well known in the RPG community.) He is 'on to something' if his point is that 95 percent of stuff produced for 3e (or RPGs in general) is crap -- including stuff by WotC IMO. But that is hardly news. What is annoying is his claim -- vague and unsupported -- about non-WotC companies (both d20 and non-d20). It looks like a crass dig at the competition, one that is lent the air of credibility by his reputation as a solid game designer. Interestingly, at least one non-WotC company representative -- John Nephew, president of Atlas Games -- commented at Mearls' blog to point out that Mearls was plain wrong, at least with respect to his company (viz. Ars Magica 5th edition is doing very well, and outperforming the company's d20 material by a significant margin). See the end of the comments here: [url]http://www.livejournal.com/users/mearls/105311.html[/url]. I can only imagine that what is true for Atlas is also true for a few other non-WotC companies -- and thus Mearls' generalizations are rubbish. Anyway, I've rambled on about this long enough. My apologies. I hope all is well back in Emeryville. :) [/QUOTE]
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