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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Talislan" data-source="post: 3880509" data-attributes="member: 56858">That's not quite what I was getting at sir, but thankyou for pulling me up on the shortcomings of my description of said prospective audience.Firstly, who said anything about pretending to be an elf in a basement?What you do in your basement is your business not ours. You'll have no contention from me there.Secondly, I don't know of anyone who could be called dumb pretending to be an elf on a computer 'cos they tend to be quite difficult characters to play without a little bit of intelligent thinking, due to rascial weakness and the like.Incidently, are you insinuating that smart people only pretend to be elves in basements, or that only a smart person would pretend to be an elf in the basement.? Or If you're playing an elf it would be smart to do it in a basement but dumb to do it on a computer?Pedantics read messages differently you see.I do acknowledge that the use of 'iq' was most misplaced in my comment and will therefore retract it and replace it with Imaginative Qualifying cognitive ability. Or I could just put it simply as the demographic being aimed at by the company being accused of potentially 'dumbing down' its product so that it is more easily accessed by said demographic.My point was a smart, or rather, imaginative gameplayer (as I'm sure you are) playing an ORC would be great. If the wonderful new creation set to attract a new demographic to the world of D&D has its way though, you may be faced with a less imaginative gameplayer coming to the fore, who just wants to smash everything, and therefore would want to be an ORC.</blockquote>

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