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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 9619145" data-attributes="member: 59082">Scratching my head a bit here. Every so often I stumble upon one of these mega-threads and set myself the task of trying to figure out the gist of it by reading the most recent page or two. I saw lots of upset about something Mike Mearls said, so dug back to see what the kerfuffle was about and found the tweets from a few pages back:[ATTACH=full]400491[/ATTACH]My head-scratching is because I can't but think, what's the big deal here? He is saying that he thinks its a myth that younger gamers want a &quot;safe&quot; game, without risk, that intrinsic to roleplaying is some kind of (fictionalized) risk, the possibility of &quot;loss and defat without enduring tangible harm.&quot;Why is this controversial, at all?I suppose some who prefer a &quot;safer&quot; approach in which there's no real, or very little, risk might take issue with his phrase &quot;time-wasting slop,&quot; but he prefaced the string of tweets by saying he's &quot;feeling salty,&quot; which implies a hyperbolic tone, more on the persuasive than argumentative side of the spectrum.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 9619145, member: 59082"] Scratching my head a bit here. Every so often I stumble upon one of these mega-threads and set myself the task of trying to figure out the gist of it by reading the most recent page or two. I saw lots of upset about something Mike Mearls said, so dug back to see what the kerfuffle was about and found the tweets from a few pages back: [ATTACH type="full" size="595x474"]400491[/ATTACH] My head-scratching is because I can't but think, what's the big deal here? He is saying that he thinks its a myth that younger gamers want a "safe" game, without risk, that intrinsic to roleplaying is some kind of (fictionalized) risk, the possibility of "loss and defat without enduring tangible harm." Why is this controversial, at all? I suppose some who prefer a "safer" approach in which there's no real, or very little, risk might take issue with his phrase "time-wasting slop," but he prefaced the string of tweets by saying he's "feeling salty," which implies a hyperbolic tone, more on the persuasive than argumentative side of the spectrum. [/QUOTE]

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