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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6687869" data-attributes="member: 15700">He didn't say Crawford had poor reading comprehension in general.  He said in this case, "less than stellar" reading comprehension is what led to Crawford's opinion that EW disagreed with.  That's not an ad hominem because it's directly in the context of Jeremy's interpretation of that particular rule.  It's the exact same thing if I said, "I disagree with you because I think you interpreted that wrong."  That's certainly not an ad hominem.Uh, yeah it is.  I create and design games, and I'm here to tell you, I don't have every rule or subrule memorized that I wrote, and there are times where I've gone back and questioned myself as to the interpretation of a rule that I wrote a year to two earlier.  And those are games where I'm the only one who wrote them.  I assume more than Jeremy had input on the rules of D&D.I would bet you $100 that Jeremy would admit that yeah, sometimes they go back and interpret a rule differently now than what they may have intended a few years ago.  Why am I so confident?  Because this happens to literally every game designer I know, including myself.  Game designers are regular people, and we're not infallible.  Most of us understand that, and don't think it's some great personal attack on us for someone to say that they think we interpreted a rule incorrectly.  Why you're getting so upset and taking it so personal is beyond me.Yes, I would.  And yes, I've been told that.  And I didn't take it as a personal attack unless that person was saying I had horrible reading comprehension in general.  But EW didn't say that.  He said that in this one context, he felt Jeremy's opinion was based on "less than stellar reading comprehension."And one more thing.  Anyone who designs games and gets as worked up as you for something like what EW said is in the wrong freaking businesses.  If you take even the slightest form of criticism as a personal attack, get out of the design business now.  I'm pretty sure anyone who designs games understands this.  The reason game designers don't participate in forums like (certain unnamed sites) is not because someone said something like what EW said.  It's because people make comments like accusing them of being bigots and racists, or garbage incompetent game designers, or call them horrible people.  Which I'll note, is miles away from saying that you think a game designer interpreted a rule wrong.  The gap between the two is wide indeed.</blockquote>

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