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<blockquote data-quote="Arilyn" data-source="post: 7769296" data-attributes="member: 6816042">There are three loud groups in the hobby, which contribute almost nothing to rpg conversations.&nbsp; There is the pretentious &quot;serious&quot; roleplayer group which dismisses D&amp;D as a board game for murder hoboes, the &quot;hardcore&quot; tactical group which dismisses &quot;serious&quot; roleplayers as fluffy wannabe drama students, and the &quot;old schoolers&quot; who lament the hobby being taken over by the &quot;young folk&quot; who don't like challenges and want everything handed over for free. It's fine to have strong opinions, to be passionate, but not to be an obnoxious and/or pretentious know-it-all, who can't even be bothered to understand their whole hobby, beyond their favoured niche.Lewpuls is a game designer, and his articles have been accepted on this site, but unfortunately, he is regularly coming off as one of those loud voices, which are not furthering the conversation, other than to get a lot of offended responses, and posts which do better at engendering a proper debate. I can hope that he'll take these criticisms to heart, and submit better researched, more knowledgeable articles in the future. He's a rpg writer, so it's incumbent on him to have knowledge about the whole hobby, not just D&amp;D, and to really understand the varying playstyles, and not make simplistic assumptions. This is why the article even offends players who lean toward &quot;old school&quot;play. It's the same reason that I get offended by the pretentious role playing group, even though that is my preferred style, the roleplaying, not the pretension.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Nobody wants champions of their preferred style to sound lame and ill informed. If Lewpuls really wants to convince us of the merits of &quot;old school&quot;, he really needs to have a more thorough understanding of the &quot;competition,&quot; and not just be one of those loud, extremists, who replace substance with volume.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arilyn, post: 7769296, member: 6816042"] There are three loud groups in the hobby, which contribute almost nothing to rpg conversations. There is the pretentious "serious" roleplayer group which dismisses D&D as a board game for murder hoboes, the "hardcore" tactical group which dismisses "serious" roleplayers as fluffy wannabe drama students, and the "old schoolers" who lament the hobby being taken over by the "young folk" who don't like challenges and want everything handed over for free. It's fine to have strong opinions, to be passionate, but not to be an obnoxious and/or pretentious know-it-all, who can't even be bothered to understand their whole hobby, beyond their favoured niche. Lewpuls is a game designer, and his articles have been accepted on this site, but unfortunately, he is regularly coming off as one of those loud voices, which are not furthering the conversation, other than to get a lot of offended responses, and posts which do better at engendering a proper debate. I can hope that he'll take these criticisms to heart, and submit better researched, more knowledgeable articles in the future. He's a rpg writer, so it's incumbent on him to have knowledge about the whole hobby, not just D&D, and to really understand the varying playstyles, and not make simplistic assumptions. This is why the article even offends players who lean toward "old school"play. It's the same reason that I get offended by the pretentious role playing group, even though that is my preferred style, the roleplaying, not the pretension.:) Nobody wants champions of their preferred style to sound lame and ill informed. If Lewpuls really wants to convince us of the merits of "old school", he really needs to have a more thorough understanding of the "competition," and not just be one of those loud, extremists, who replace substance with volume. [/QUOTE]

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