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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5896912" data-attributes="member: 87792">What matters is the relevancy and the justification.  You can be as critical as you like as long as <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You have an actual reason you can back up</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It is based on the game not the players of that game</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It is relevant to the conversation</li> </ul>In reverse order: You can't just drop into a thread and say 4e, 3e, AD&D, OSRIC, or even <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Worst_RPGs_ever&sa=U&ei=CNKfT6ztFIbP4QTFwayIAw&ved=0CBQQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNHw0vOGtcRsNUmqsact6amZTVrvEw" target="_blank">FATAL</a> suck.  (Even if FATAL does).  It adds nothing constructive to the thread.  And is going to annoy people as well as waste their time reading what you've written. Never attack the players.  And this includes saying that the game is suitable for idiots/rollplayers/people who can't handle complexity.  You're going to just annoy half the audience.  And although some preferences can make you a bad person, your taste in D&D editions is not one of them.  (Your taste in roleplaying game systems might show you to be a bad person if you're actually a fan of FATAL or RaHoWa but those both are about the assumed gameworld and are extreme outliers).  Seriously, just never say anything about the players of any given game.  Or that a game is for people who like [anything derogatory]. And you need to be able to give reasons.  One of the posters I like reading on this board is [MENTION=29398]Lanefan[/MENTION] - and he's a fairly hard line 1e fan.  When it comes to RPGs I really don't look for the same things he does.  Which makes reading him interesting - he has a different perspective to mine.  If you can give reasons for disliking things and can justify them there's no problem with disagreeing although you may get disagreed with for your reasons.  If you just say you don't like something it adds no useful information to the discussion.  Also giving your reasons leaves you open to being engaged with and potentially even having your mind changed.  I used to think the 1e XP for GP rule sucked - why reward people twice?  But I now really like it because I understand what it is designed to do - incentivise people for looting without fighting.</blockquote>

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