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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4926161" data-attributes="member: 80487">The trouble with "the marketing" is that it's accurate; the problem is the attitude expressed in the game design itself.If Hasbro decides to slap the Diplomacy trademark on a quite different game with the quite different concerns of Axis & Allies, well -- if that's what I want, then I can just play A&A (another Hasbro product) instead.What's offensive is people coming into "our house" as it were -- the D&D game we've been playing in some cases since before some of those people were born -- and tearing it down to build whatever the hell they happen to prefer. They're just passing through, and they're acting like landlords rather than custodians.Whatever one's appraisal of the epic fantasies of Terry Brooks, David Eddings, Dennis L. McKiernan, etc., they did not take the title The Lord of the Rings.The prevailing attitude, both at the corporate level and apparently among "D&D fans", seems now to be either that D&D deserves no such respect because it's not "literary" -- or that Tolkien's and others' is due none either.Fortunately, not only has Tolkien's work not been put out of print in favor of a "new edition" of Peter Jackson's devising, but an actual new prose edition of The Children of Hurin has been released to solid sales. Nor has the Sci-Fi Channel's abomination replaced Le Guin's classic Earthsea books.</blockquote>