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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1480653" data-attributes="member: 10201">Hmmm...i guess i did get a bit carried away there. I certainly wasn't trying to belittle anyone--i obviously misread you because i read it that you, too, found Aria perfectly readable. And i definitely didn't intend to question anyone's motives or integrity. I was employing disproof-by-counter-example, but then got riled up and began giving supporting arguments, when none are needed (and, indeed, they don't help, they just obscure the point). And you're obviously using proof-by-majority, and those two simply don't counter one another--we're using different standards. So, yeah, agree to disagree is probably the easiest: i found it an easy read, the majority find it a hard read.--The part that i find interesting is that these things aren't linear, but are apparently multi-axial. That is, i'm not at all surprised we have different ideas of what is "hard to read". I'm surprised that we can read the same books, and one of us think X is a harder read than Y, and the other think the precise inverse. I would've thought that reading difficulty came on a nice neat line, like the grade-level ratings imply it does. We wouldn't necessarily agree on "how much harder" one thing is than another, but i would've thought we'd all agree on which direction something was (harder or easier, that is). I'm a little baffled by how, frex, i can find the D&D3E PH a difficult read and Aria an easy read, while d4 finds Aria difficult and the PH easy. To be clear, i'm not questioning these assertions, just trying to reconcile them.</blockquote>

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