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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 2032346" data-attributes="member: 957">I don't see how it is fair or accurate to decribe being disinterested in a specific setting as being closed-minded.  It may have more to do with what it is than what it is not.I'm interested in the magic system.  But a lot of other things described above do not interest me.  This includes but is not limited to the setting material.  I am quite satisfied with my current game, so I'm not sufficiently motivated to buy a whole book for a magic system.  So ultimately, I am in fact dismissing this product.  But no moreso than any other of the 50-odd products I didn't buy in the past few months.  As far as the setting goes, I have very little experience with romantic fantasy.  I read the first (?) Mercedes Lackey series 15 or so years ago (Arrows of the Queen, etc...).  I really enjoyed it despite rolling my eyes multiple times at the political correctness.  I readily purchased the first book in the next series based on my enjoyment of the prior series.  To me, somewhere between the first and second series the focus shifted from a good story with PC elements to a PC message machine with a story built in.  I assumed she had clicked with a niche market and was serving that market.  Good for her, I hope she makes a million bucks.  But in the mean time, there are tons of books that I want to read and I just do not have time to read them all.  I have no choice but to skip something, so I'm going to stack the deck in my favor and start skipping Lackey.  I prejudge those books as not aimed at me and not entertaining to me.  Maybe I'm wrong.  And if I ever run out of books to read I'll readily give her another chance.  But as my backlog grows every year, I don't see that happening.  There is no malice or contempt to it.  I just prefer to be entertained.Same with game stuff.  Theres got to be something I don't buy.  I'm going to stack the deck in my favor.  I'd like to buy the magic system as a stand alone.  If they do not publish it that way, then it is no loss to me.  If they ever decide to do so, then it will be a bonus to me.</blockquote>

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