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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5112043" data-attributes="member: 18253">I object if it sounds like one person is telling another person his style is inferior. On the forums, that almost always seems to be someone who prefers sandboxes over story-driven. If story-driven was presented as the only way to do it right, I would defend sandbox. I'm sure for some posters I read too much into their replies. I think I did so for one of your posts at one point (just went through 8 of the pages on this thread and can't fine it though <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" />) and I apologize if I did so. To my ear, there are others who seem to imply sandbox is the only one true way to game. I've certainly met some of those folks in person. I don't think you see this as much for the story-tellers because extreme ref-driven quickly gets ludicrous. Whereas extreme sandbox can still work although when poorly executed, it can get rather dull. So a very sandbox game can seem pure which gets some folks thinking it is more virtuous. So, if I defend anything, it is my intention to defend the right to choose a style suitable to your circumstances without having someone sniff disparagingly at it. Call it a pet peeve.</blockquote>