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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2173571" data-attributes="member: 5171"><p>Given that a few responses made it clear that I'd been overly cute, I'd like to clarify my post. Wanting to take the rules part of BR and use it in a different game/setting is fine. Not liking Romantic Fantasy is fine. What I find confusing is the group that gets angry about the fact that Blue Rose is exactly what the people on the websites were saying from Day One that it was going to be -- and who then judge it by a standard by which it fails, which would be fine except that the standard isn't a standard that it's fair to apply to the Romantic Fantasy genre.</p><p></p><p>To repeat: rules-taking is fine. Not liking Romantic Fantasy is fine. But if you don't like Romantic Fantasy, why the frell did you buy a roleplaying game dedicated to recreating the experience of the Romantic Fantasy genre, and why the frell do you think you have a leg to stand on in terms of your complaints? I, for example, dislike brooding trenchcoat antihero power-fantasy oft-anime-informed movies (and please pardon the inherent judgment in that phrase, but that's the best way I can describe them). Now, knowing that I have this opinion of movies like that, I don't start complaining when RPGs that faithfully repllicate that form of entertainment come along. To do so would be stupid on my part. </p><p></p><p>Maybe I'm unique in this, but I've got more interesting things to do then troll around the boards telling people that I don't like the RPG that recreates a form of entertainment I didn't like to begin with.</p><p></p><p>They said from day one, "This will be apple pie, not quiche." They showed fiction clips on their website that demonstrated that it would be apple pie, not quiche. They answered questions on their forums to confirm that it would be apple pie, not quiche. And yet still people who have neither experience nor interest with apple pie post snarky comments about how it's the worst quiche they've ever tasted.</p><p></p><p>If you'll excuse me, I'm going to review Sidewinder: Recoiled. I loathe Westerns with every fiber of my being, but apparently that's not a valid reason not to go review an RPG based on Westerns. If I'm feeling particularly generous, I'll suggest that maybe their rules on gunfights could be used in a d20 Modern campaign instead...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takyris, post: 2173571, member: 5171"] Given that a few responses made it clear that I'd been overly cute, I'd like to clarify my post. Wanting to take the rules part of BR and use it in a different game/setting is fine. Not liking Romantic Fantasy is fine. What I find confusing is the group that gets angry about the fact that Blue Rose is exactly what the people on the websites were saying from Day One that it was going to be -- and who then judge it by a standard by which it fails, which would be fine except that the standard isn't a standard that it's fair to apply to the Romantic Fantasy genre. To repeat: rules-taking is fine. Not liking Romantic Fantasy is fine. But if you don't like Romantic Fantasy, why the frell did you buy a roleplaying game dedicated to recreating the experience of the Romantic Fantasy genre, and why the frell do you think you have a leg to stand on in terms of your complaints? I, for example, dislike brooding trenchcoat antihero power-fantasy oft-anime-informed movies (and please pardon the inherent judgment in that phrase, but that's the best way I can describe them). Now, knowing that I have this opinion of movies like that, I don't start complaining when RPGs that faithfully repllicate that form of entertainment come along. To do so would be stupid on my part. Maybe I'm unique in this, but I've got more interesting things to do then troll around the boards telling people that I don't like the RPG that recreates a form of entertainment I didn't like to begin with. They said from day one, "This will be apple pie, not quiche." They showed fiction clips on their website that demonstrated that it would be apple pie, not quiche. They answered questions on their forums to confirm that it would be apple pie, not quiche. And yet still people who have neither experience nor interest with apple pie post snarky comments about how it's the worst quiche they've ever tasted. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to review Sidewinder: Recoiled. I loathe Westerns with every fiber of my being, but apparently that's not a valid reason not to go review an RPG based on Westerns. If I'm feeling particularly generous, I'll suggest that maybe their rules on gunfights could be used in a d20 Modern campaign instead... [/QUOTE]
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