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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1471746" data-attributes="member: 6398">You seem to be approaching this from the wrong assumption. First, I don't care if you "buy" my post.  Second, I'm far from "dead in the water" simply because you don't agree with me. While the rest of your post is true, the fact is that, in order to determine whether I'm dealing with a gamer that's looking for a good round of Dark Sun or just some over-pampered rules-natzi jerk, I have to actually meet, great, and discuss the game with said individual.  That fact makes my post correct.  The fact that I would write them off as over-pampered rules-natzi jerks is also irrelevant; it's the time wasted learning that they are and the additional time wasted as they try to bible-thump an (appearantly) over-edited article (designed to appeal to people that have no idea what Dark Sun is) at me that's the issue.  Another issue is that said over-pampered rules-natzi jerk could very well end up on a message board like this one ranting about 2E hold-overs being enforced by a cruddy GM that ignores "official" articles that he never gave a real chance to and getting bravos, support, and ego-stroking from other posters that don't know the whole story. So, yes, I agree, I don't want to play with a jerk.  But I've found that weeding out good players from a lawn full of jerks is getting harder and harder to do, and I'd rather see the jerks with less ammuition than more.</blockquote>

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