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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Not a Decepticon" data-source="post: 9665263" data-attributes="member: 7020527">I have seen on Internet few bad ways people try to encourage D&D fans to try other games. Goin on a "please try another game" rant without naming a single one, so your post is just complaining about D&D or its players is one. Acting as if anyone trying to homebrew anything for D&D is just too dumb to try another game is more reductive the smaller the homebrew is, stiffles creativity and makes assumptions about people. I had myself encountered this behavior so many times that whenever I even try to discuss any problem with the game or potential homebrew, I have to caveat it with list of other games I am playing - Warhammer Fantasy, Fabula Ultima, Blades i nthe Dark, soon Mage: the Ascension. Hell, I am doing this right now out of fear someone will dismiss my rant simply by declaring I am too stupid to play other games.But for the love of all gods, I have never seen anything more RUDE than applying this behavior to any big name creator or internet celebrity that is associated with D&D. Just flat out inventing a strawman version of a person in writers' head, to write fanfiction about why they are using D&D. "Matt Mercer doesn't ACTUALLY like D&D, he is only using it because it's popular and makes him most money", "Brennan Lee Mulligan is lying when he speaks what value he finds in D&D, he just never played other games" (despite the fact we had seen him play other games in both of his shows), "Making his videos about Draw Steel easily digestible to D&D fans proves Matt Colville is too stupid to play better games and Draw Steel will be a D&D-Heartbreaker". Out of all behavior this one irks me so much. You don't know these people, this is some weird parasocial behavior where you need to invent reasons why cool and popular people don't ACTUALLY have different opinions from you, instead of just moving on from it. It rubs me wrong way because it really feels like people are forgetting the faces on the screen are real people, and replacing them with strawmen easy to knock down.Sorry for the rant, but this really got on my nerves. Maybe I just hate people making bad-faith assumptions to explain something that challenges their worldview. I hope this is right forum.</blockquote>

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