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<blockquote data-quote="Piperken" data-source="post: 9543706" data-attributes="member: 7047091"><p>I came to this article a bit late due to holidays.</p><p></p><p>With a writer's lens, I don't feel this article is framed well for what it purports to explain, for the following reasons:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It states that there were significant rules changes (i.e. more than one!) in the game very early, in fact, near the beginning</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For most readers, this would lead them to anticipate that the article will discuss at length <strong>rule changes</strong>. Even if you are not versed in role playing games, the average informed reader will presume a significant rule change means something mechanical-related to the game</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It immediately proceeds to cite race > species in the 3rd paragraph, then goes on for focusing exclusively on this one thing for 8-9 paragraphs, including some commentary from Kuntz & Crawford (ymmv). As many mentioned, this issue was discussed a lot in the community, but was resolved broadly speaking nearly a year if not more ago. Adjacent systems to D&D made changes well before this</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Players mostly fall in the spectrum of this being neutral, fine and even positive towards it</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The article finally refers to some of the other rule changes quite passively (in a ~40 paragraph article)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Imagine if they rather brought up <strong>2024 Stealth</strong>, or some of the major class changes that did garner meaningful discussion here <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL :ROFLMAO:" data-smilie="18"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /></li> </ul><p></p><p>Readers who mention this is a past issue for the community are right, and unfortunately it does reflect a poor attempt by the paper to broaden a niche topic, which shouldn't be. RPGs are present as an after school activity! People watch streams of actual play or watch content on platforms derived from it!</p><p></p><p>Culturally it is not a small thing anymore, even though not everyone plays.</p><p></p><p>The NYT really should be doing a better job.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Piperken, post: 9543706, member: 7047091"] I came to this article a bit late due to holidays. With a writer's lens, I don't feel this article is framed well for what it purports to explain, for the following reasons: [LIST] [*]It states that there were significant rules changes (i.e. more than one!) in the game very early, in fact, near the beginning [*]For most readers, this would lead them to anticipate that the article will discuss at length [B]rule changes[/B]. Even if you are not versed in role playing games, the average informed reader will presume a significant rule change means something mechanical-related to the game [*]It immediately proceeds to cite race > species in the 3rd paragraph, then goes on for focusing exclusively on this one thing for 8-9 paragraphs, including some commentary from Kuntz & Crawford (ymmv). As many mentioned, this issue was discussed a lot in the community, but was resolved broadly speaking nearly a year if not more ago. Adjacent systems to D&D made changes well before this [*]Players mostly fall in the spectrum of this being neutral, fine and even positive towards it [*]The article finally refers to some of the other rule changes quite passively (in a ~40 paragraph article) [*]Imagine if they rather brought up [B]2024 Stealth[/B], or some of the major class changes that did garner meaningful discussion here :ROFLMAO: [/LIST] Readers who mention this is a past issue for the community are right, and unfortunately it does reflect a poor attempt by the paper to broaden a niche topic, which shouldn't be. RPGs are present as an after school activity! People watch streams of actual play or watch content on platforms derived from it! Culturally it is not a small thing anymore, even though not everyone plays. The NYT really should be doing a better job. [/QUOTE]
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