What are you a minority about?

[SoldierBlue]

Oh, and another point I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority over: I thought The Forest Oracle was genius (I played it when I was 14, so I have an excuse...).

 

[Mouseferatu]

b) I think that HP Lovecraft is a talentless hack with facist overtones.

I have to ask, was that supposed to be "racist" or "fascist"? Because if it's the former, that's not a belief, it's hard cold fact. Lovecraft was a racist--though, to be fair, so was most of the culture at the time--and it comes out in some of his stories.

That said, you will have to be sacrificed to Dagon for calling him "talentless."

 

[M.L. Martin]

That said, you will have to be sacrificed to Dagon for calling him "talentless."

Well, I might as well jump in here to point out one of the areas where I'm in a decided minority: I admire Lovecraft's creativity, but I think the man's ideas were completely wrong, and I have trouble suspending my disbelief enough to accept the kind of universe the Cthulhu Mythos posits.

I am also quite thoroughly sick of the tendency among gamers to assume that the Cthulhu Mythos is the be-all and end-all of horror gaming and that it must be treated with supreme reverence as the True Revelation to the Gaming Masses.

 

[Diamond Cross]

Oh, Drizzt was the first character I'd ever developed a disliking for from the fanboyism and at the time all people I knew wanted to make a clone of the character. On the forum I was on every other poster had their name a copy or variant spelling of his name.

To this day I won't read those novels because of it.

 

[tuxgeo]

Oh, Drizzt was the first character I'd ever developed a disliking for from the fanboyism and at the time all people I knew wanted to make a clone of the character. On the forum I was on every other poster had their name a copy or variant spelling of hims name.

To this day I won't read those novels because of it.

Sounds as though a bit of catharsis might help: Roll up and play a 'forward-Ranger' named "Drizzle d'oh Foglamp," who specializes in amber-tinted, reflective lanterns (instead of darkvision) to visually pierce the misty gloom, and who dual-wields long, curved, rubber-backed blades which fill a secondary function as windshield wipers. You could have his angst come from the fact that he routinely is positioned too far forward from the rest of the group, forcing him to backpedal when fighting breaks out in order to keep from splitting the convoy party.
Or maybe I'll beat you to it. . . .

 

[Rechan]

Oh, Drizzt was the first character I'd ever developed a disliking for from the fanboyism and at the time all people I knew wanted to make a clone of the character. On the forum I was on every other poster had their name a copy or variant spelling of his name.

To this day I won't read those novels because of it.

NOT hating Drizzt is the minority.

 

[SoldierBlue]

Sorry to all the Lovecraft fans out there...

I don't know if I'll now be faced with "mind-blasting" or "cyclopedean" terrors...

 

[The Human Target]

NOT hating Drizzt is the minority.

Okay then, thats another minority I'm in.

 

[Celebrim]

I have trouble suspending my disbelief enough to accept the kind of universe the Cthulhu Mythos posits.

Well, isn't that the whole point of the Mythos universe? Humanity prefers - indeed needs - a comfortable illusion as opposed to the stark truth, and when this illusion is stripped away the inevitable result is insanity is the core tenent of Lovecraftian fiction. The fact that you 'have trouble suspending your disbelief enough to accept the kind of universe the Cthulhu Mythos posits' makes you a half of a perfect Lovecraftian narrator. The only thing else you need is a deep facination with the stuff you refuse to believe.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

NOT hating Drizzt is the minority.

Okay then, thats another minority I'm in.

The only reason I'm miffed at Drizzt is that he's so über-popular in some circles- which has resulted in the reflexive über-hate- that my oldest Drow PC gets lumped into the category of "Drizzt Clones to be hated"...even though he predates the world's most famous drow by years.