Which World Box set to buy?
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Don'tcha love people who think their experiences are fact?
"No, they don't - or at the very least, not universally. I know this as absolute fact, from experience."
It's not even worth being on these boards or anywhere else, in fact, if you are completely unwilling to accept any viewpoint but your own. You speak of the collective experience of millions of other people as though you were the final arbiter of it. As if you, in some fit of omniscience, truly understood the experience that EVERYONE else has in this case (or any other, it would seem).
I just have to ask who the heck you think you are? You think your opinion, because you've spent a few hundred hours hidden from the world in your little gaming den, should be applied to everyone else and that your word is fact and the rest of us would do well to listen to it?
I've played lots of different kinds of gaming worlds and I have my own opinion but I hardly see the point of sharing it with you...who seem not only to have made up your mind that you're right, but that everyone else is wrong. Nice attitude, chief.
Have you game-mastered thousands of different groups...using dozens and dozens of world settings over the last thirty years...have you attended every gaming con, written articles for magazines, started several gaming companies and had your own adventures published? Or are you, as I suspect, one of those people who will never actually accomplish anything, at least in this particular category, because you're spending all your energy slamming other people and tearing down other people's work?
You probably think being critical at every opportunity makes you appear intelligent. Well, here's a news flash fella, it makes you look much less intelligent than you might think. It makes you appear narrow-minded and negative. I'm not saying that you are any of these things, but rather how your attitude comes across.
Do you think the gaming community owes you something because of all your vaunted "experience"? The community owes you nothing, my friend. Just as you owe nothing to it other than to be a bit respectful.
Look, nothing's wrong with liking or disliking a product. That's why it's so great now that there are so many publishers creating so many products...we can choose the things we like. And boards like this let us discuss the things we liked and, sometimes, the things we didn't like so much. That's fine, that's healthy and productive. Word has it that publishers often troll these boards in search of honest opinions. But it's different when youyBut when someone like you decides that their opinion should be the end-all be-all take on a product or a gaming style or whatever, then other people need to stand up and tell you to pipe down until you get some perspective.
Feel free to return some vitriol.
"No, they don't - or at the very least, not universally. I know this as absolute fact, from experience."
It's not even worth being on these boards or anywhere else, in fact, if you are completely unwilling to accept any viewpoint but your own. You speak of the collective experience of millions of other people as though you were the final arbiter of it. As if you, in some fit of omniscience, truly understood the experience that EVERYONE else has in this case (or any other, it would seem).
I just have to ask who the heck you think you are? You think your opinion, because you've spent a few hundred hours hidden from the world in your little gaming den, should be applied to everyone else and that your word is fact and the rest of us would do well to listen to it?
I've played lots of different kinds of gaming worlds and I have my own opinion but I hardly see the point of sharing it with you...who seem not only to have made up your mind that you're right, but that everyone else is wrong. Nice attitude, chief.
Have you game-mastered thousands of different groups...using dozens and dozens of world settings over the last thirty years...have you attended every gaming con, written articles for magazines, started several gaming companies and had your own adventures published? Or are you, as I suspect, one of those people who will never actually accomplish anything, at least in this particular category, because you're spending all your energy slamming other people and tearing down other people's work?
You probably think being critical at every opportunity makes you appear intelligent. Well, here's a news flash fella, it makes you look much less intelligent than you might think. It makes you appear narrow-minded and negative. I'm not saying that you are any of these things, but rather how your attitude comes across.
Do you think the gaming community owes you something because of all your vaunted "experience"? The community owes you nothing, my friend. Just as you owe nothing to it other than to be a bit respectful.
Look, nothing's wrong with liking or disliking a product. That's why it's so great now that there are so many publishers creating so many products...we can choose the things we like. And boards like this let us discuss the things we liked and, sometimes, the things we didn't like so much. That's fine, that's healthy and productive. Word has it that publishers often troll these boards in search of honest opinions. But it's different when youyBut when someone like you decides that their opinion should be the end-all be-all take on a product or a gaming style or whatever, then other people need to stand up and tell you to pipe down until you get some perspective.
Feel free to return some vitriol.
buzz
Adventurer
My first thoughts exactly.loki44 said:
I mean, if you're itching to buy something, by all means buy something. But, if you're already willing to do the work, why not save your cash and create something unique to your group? If all you need is a map... draw one, or download some of the free ones online.
Treebore
First Post
I bought them all. Wilderlands, DCC 35, Kalamar, Oathbound, Scarred Lands, Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Glorantha, Mystara, Iron Kingdoms, Dungeonworld, Erde, Ravenloft, Cyradon, Blackmoor, Dawnforge, Rokugan, etc...
I haven't bought Midnight, Eberron, or Greenwoods new one yet.
In fact, the only setting I have no desire to buy is Eberron. The only setting that the more I hear about it the less I like it.
I like them all for various reasons. But I am easy to please, I guess.
Wilderlands is the only one I own 5 copies of. Two sets of the original books, and 3 of the new boxed set.
So in that sense Wilderlands is my favorite. By a margin of 4 copies.
I haven't bought Midnight, Eberron, or Greenwoods new one yet.
In fact, the only setting I have no desire to buy is Eberron. The only setting that the more I hear about it the less I like it.
I like them all for various reasons. But I am easy to please, I guess.
Wilderlands is the only one I own 5 copies of. Two sets of the original books, and 3 of the new boxed set.
So in that sense Wilderlands is my favorite. By a margin of 4 copies.
Wraith Form
Explorer
I snipped the rest of Toper's message to conserve space, but....really, when I read Aus_Snow's post, I thought the exact same thing. Some people, you know?Toper said:
Aus_Snow
First Post
Incorrect.Toper said:
I'll explain it to you; it might help you out of your current wound up state of (rather humorous) hypocrisy. I hope so, anyhow.
Right, well. For someone (e.g., me) to say that a thing is not universally true, because they themselves have experienced that thing not to be so, *is* a statement of absolute fact.
Pure and simple.
Whether you are an alt, or just some 'concerned citizen' *cough*, your approach to this nonexistent issue is not an appropriate one for these boards. Check the forum rules and guidelines, if you don't believe me (and I suspect that you wouldn't
).Peace, out.
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