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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9108343" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I think a hurdle is that in a lot of discussions involving comparing games, the various terms are often jargon arising from someone trying to make their favored game sound better and the other game worse that has aquired a connotation, or something with an obvious positive/negative connotation in general usage,  or something even more blatantly picked as an insult.  (See, for example the discussion at <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/jargon-revisited-why-jargon-is-often-bad-for-discussing-rpgs.699397/" target="_blank">https://www.enworld.org/threads/jargon-revisited-why-jargon-is-often-bad-for-discussing-rpgs.699397/</a> for a bit more ).When a thread comes up about a term that should be neutral, it feels like tons of people are already primed to find an insult because of all of the other threads.  Which isn't helped when some of those who are known to favor one type of game vociferously (is that a majority of ENWorld regulars)  are in the thread and others in it just use the opportunity for snark.  Let alone when someone is intentionally trying to use the term to vindicate their chosen game and put down the others.:-(</blockquote>