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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7693045" data-attributes="member: 4937">Plenty of people have false ideas about plenty of topics.   The English language has plenty of nuance, but nuance is not the same as nonsense.  That Tomb of Horrors is unplayable is nonsense.  That you try to defend it, citing 'nuance', is to misuse nuance as much as you have misused unplayable.What I generally note is that people use familiar words like 'indecipherable' when they lack the vocabulary to come up with a more appropriate term.  But, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and hope you meant to use the term merely as comic exaggeration.  So, were you utilizing comic exaggeration when you said that the module was unplayable?Choosing not to play something is not the same as something being unable to be played.  If you meant that you decided to never run it, then you should have said that.Also, in general, apologizing for someone else's behavior is the same as saying that they and not you made the mistake.  So it's not an apology at all, but in fact a covert insult.  Zak S didn't misunderstand you at all.  He assumed you were intelligent enough to mean what you said and responded to you as if you were intelligent enough to deserve a response.Incidentally, out of curiosity I did Google: "Tomb of horrors unplayable".   And while its hard to tell what Google censors these days, the majority of my top answers, including essays like, "Tomb of Horrors: A D&D classic, or an unplayable deathtrap?", come down decidedly on the side of the adventure as a classic, and often, as the greatest D&D module of all time.  Perhaps you were too quick to judge all those years ago.</blockquote>

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