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Message: <blockquote data-quote="houndstooth" data-source="post: 3286827" data-attributes="member: 49130">The Elfish Gene - A note from the authorHelloMark Barrowcliffe here, I wrote The Elfish Gene.The blurb on Amazon was not written by me, in fact it was written by someone who has since left my publishers. I'm getting it changed.My intention in writing this book wasn't to attack gamers at all. I was a gamer and still hold a great deal of affection for that period of my life, something that comes over in the book. In fact, if anyone is attacked or made fun of in The Elfish Gene then it's me. I was an idiot, I was a gamer. That doesn't mean all gamers are idiots.It's a personal memoir about an obsessional way of playing RPGs. It makes no mention of the majority of perfectly normal gamers, just freaks like me.Anyway, I'm not going to go into what the book is about - we should be able to get sample chapters up on websites soon so you can judge for yourselves. But please, don't think it's an attack on D&D, or on gamers. My publishers wouldn't have paid me to produce something that cliched.Much of the book stands up for RPGs. Of course, I do give the myths that D&D leads to the occult or that it involves casting spells a good kick in the head.Anyway, if anyone has any idea where I could post a few sample chapters I'd be grateful. I think then you'll see that this is no different in intent to a lot of comic biographies on golf, chess, football, whatever. And mods, I don't think this breaks any rules on advertising as I'm replying to an established thread. If it does, er, sorry.</blockquote>

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