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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 3642951" data-attributes="member: 13892">I'm not sure that a title or genre listing is a sample campaign, which is what I meant by "ad copy" -- there are relatively few details of actual play experience mentioned here, past that cited in my own posts. There is a lot of "It rocked!" and "I've run a [insert genre here] game with it!" but little beyond that. Very little substance. I'm not suggesting that they list flaws (although several people have rebutted me by saying that perceive flaws, as well, while curiously failing to mention any of them). I am suggesting that they offer up some kind of substantive discussion, positive or negative. "I ran X and loved it!" isn't a recounting of actual play experience. I'm not saying that it's a shill. I am saying that it's completely uninformative. You know, I didn't make any kind of statement that might be perceived this way until the last post that I made, so that dog won't hunt. All I did initially was cite issues that I had with the system based on my own actual play experience. Which summariily brought about the usual bunch of  system apologists. Some of these folks actually took past posts of mine entirely out of context in some misguided effort to invalidate what I had posted here. Others launched attacks against a system that I mentioned in an effort to undermine my decision to abandon True20 for said system. Stiil others dismissed my actual play experience as abnormal and/or immaterial simply because it didn't mirror their own experience (no other justification was offered). Are those the hallmarks of honest, substantial, debate? Not to me. To me, those are the hallmarks of unreasoned fandom gone awry.</blockquote>

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