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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4589580" data-attributes="member: 22779">I kinda sorta stumbled across an interesting observation in the past few days.&nbsp; I was reading (un)reason's excellent <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/239789-lets-read-entire-run-15.html" target="_blank">Let's Read the Entire Run</a> thread and he mentioned this little tidbit from Dragon 66, it's in a letter from EGG:Later, in one of the &quot;Where has the Magic Gone&quot; <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/246860-forked-thread-maybe-where-magic-went-magic-shop-3.html" target="_blank">Forked Threads</a>, there is a lively discussion about what is said in the 2e DMG:Now, a thought hit me.&nbsp; What would happen if Mike Mearls had written either of these two bits in a recent Dragon magazine?&nbsp; There would be a mad rush of vitriol being spilled all over the forums.&nbsp; How dare he dictate my campaign world to me, would be the rallying cry.Yet, EGG flat out dictates your world to you and no one raises an eyebrow.&nbsp; Zeb Cook does the same thing and is lauded by some for maintaining the mystery of magic items.&nbsp; At what point did game designers go from &quot;Guys who want to make my game better&quot; to &quot;Those bastards who are trying to ruin MY game!&quot;?Does it go all the way back to the launch of 3e?&nbsp; When so many people simply refused to accept 3e as a &quot;viable&quot; version of D&amp;D?&nbsp; The buyout of WOTC by Hasbro?&nbsp; 3.5?&nbsp; The end of print Dungeon/Dragon?&nbsp; Announcement of 4e?&nbsp; When did we stop trusting the game designers?&nbsp; Heck, in a recent thread I saw someone decrying the verbiage in WOTC design blogs.&nbsp; The &quot;Cloudwatching&quot; blog IIRC.&nbsp; To the point where they accused WOTC of editing the blog after the fact to make it look like they weren't being so negative.&nbsp; The truly weird thing to me was that people actually took this seriously.&nbsp; Some posters actually found it easier to believe that WOTC would, after the fact, go back and edit a blog post to remove any &quot;incriminating&quot; evidence rather than believe that some random anonymous person on the internet would over react.I just find the whole thing endless facinating in a trainwreck, car accident on the side of the road sort of way.So, I put it to you, when did &quot;game designer&quot; become synonymous with &quot;something icky I scraped off my shoe&quot;?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 4589580, member: 22779"] I kinda sorta stumbled across an interesting observation in the past few days. I was reading (un)reason's excellent [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/239789-lets-read-entire-run-15.html]Let's Read the Entire Run[/url] thread and he mentioned this little tidbit from Dragon 66, it's in a letter from EGG: Later, in one of the "Where has the Magic Gone" [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/246860-forked-thread-maybe-where-magic-went-magic-shop-3.html]Forked Threads[/url], there is a lively discussion about what is said in the 2e DMG: Now, a thought hit me. What would happen if Mike Mearls had written either of these two bits in a recent Dragon magazine? There would be a mad rush of vitriol being spilled all over the forums. How dare he dictate my campaign world to me, would be the rallying cry. Yet, EGG flat out dictates your world to you and no one raises an eyebrow. Zeb Cook does the same thing and is lauded by some for maintaining the mystery of magic items. At what point did game designers go from "Guys who want to make my game better" to "Those bastards who are trying to ruin MY game!"? Does it go all the way back to the launch of 3e? When so many people simply refused to accept 3e as a "viable" version of D&D? The buyout of WOTC by Hasbro? 3.5? The end of print Dungeon/Dragon? Announcement of 4e? When did we stop trusting the game designers? Heck, in a recent thread I saw someone decrying the verbiage in WOTC design blogs. The "Cloudwatching" blog IIRC. To the point where they accused WOTC of editing the blog after the fact to make it look like they weren't being so negative. The truly weird thing to me was that people actually took this seriously. Some posters actually found it easier to believe that WOTC would, after the fact, go back and edit a blog post to remove any "incriminating" evidence rather than believe that some random anonymous person on the internet would over react. I just find the whole thing endless facinating in a trainwreck, car accident on the side of the road sort of way. So, I put it to you, when did "game designer" become synonymous with "something icky I scraped off my shoe"? [/QUOTE]

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