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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 8446651" data-attributes="member: 7028554">[USER=7023840]@Snarf Zagyg[/USER] I suppose there's not much point in responding, since it sounds like you're dropping this post on your way out the door, and also saying that "Everything that really needed to be said is in the original post," raises the question: Why bother starting a thread, if what you're really doing is writing a blog post, and then getting increasingly frustrated when people disagree?But I will note that this business of presenting those who criticize the absolutely dominant status quo (in any industry or other context) as bullies patrolling the cafeteria is 100 percent the asymmetric problem I'm trying to surface, as far as talking about D&D goes. Why can't film critics hail the absolute artistic genius of all things MCU, as evidenced by their box office success? Darn snobbish bullies. How dare people poke fun at 'Merica, or make jokes about white privilege or whatever sports team is currently dominant or anything else that, by nearly all quantifiable measures of success, is winning. What bullies, squeaking away...somewhere down there. Don't they know there's no honor in punching up, since, you see, Goliath's size is really a disadvantage, since it makes him such an easy target!If we're going to talk about anything on a meaningful level related to mechanics, theory, etc. and not just "what's your favorite setting/race/class," why should anything be sacred? PbtA and all of its offshoots are open for criticism and comparison. OSR games too. Toss a barb about WoD players into a thread and you'll get a laugh emoji. Why do D&D and its players have to be treated so gingerly?I mean, I guess you've already answered that, including busting out the old "People like what they like" maxim, the purpose of which I'm never sure of, except to try to short-circuit further analysis by somehow shaming the participants. But, at least in this sense, I suppose I'm shameless.I also don't flip out when someone says Shadowrun 5th edition, the game I've been running for a while now, is not for them, has an unwieldy system, is worse than 2e, worse than Cyberpunk 2020 or Red, etc. I don't imagine them as bullies or wannabe cool kids. Because I'm not married to this game for the rest of my life, and it does some very specific things well (IMO) that I want to do right now, and pretty soon I'll say goodbye to the system, maybe forever.I'm not saying everyone should be system-promiscuous. But I reserve the right to be confused when anyone gets this offended by criticism of the game or system they're currently using.</blockquote>

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