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[Rant] Self-Defeating Gamer Behavior

Started by jeff37923, July 05, 2007, 03:58:34 AM

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Abyssal Maw

#15
July 06, 2007, 04:38:41 PM
I seem to remember the guy's name was "Afterburner".

And I think it all revolved around whether D&D was really a big scam being played on unsuspecting gamers who just didn't know any better, and how it all would be going away soon as soon as the natural order of things reasserted itself. (PEG was apparently quite huge at one point in the 1990s.) Meanwhile, anyone who admitted to being a d20 fan was somehow in on the conspiracy. Also, lots of moderator thuggery. People being silenced, people being selectively given a free pass...

Anyhow, the final result was me not buying anything from PEG for about 5 years straight until I  was picking up Low-Life. ("This says "Great White Games..must be different guys")

...and then I got Savage Worlds later.

Just thinking about it though kinda annoys me.
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#16
July 06, 2007, 05:07:29 PM
Oh, shit.  Afterburner.  Apparently a pretty funny guy if you like to watch board moderation as theatre macabre.  Not so funny, I imagine, if you're on the receiving end of his routine.

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#17
July 06, 2007, 07:12:14 PM
Quote from: Abyssal MawI seem to remember the guy's name was "Afterburner".

And I think it all revolved around whether D&D was really a big scam being played on unsuspecting gamers who just didn't know any better, and how it all would be going away soon as soon as the natural order of things reasserted itself. (PEG was apparently quite huge at one point in the 1990s.) Meanwhile, anyone who admitted to being a d20 fan was somehow in on the conspiracy. Also, lots of moderator thuggery. People being silenced, people being selectively given a free pass...

Anyhow, the final result was me not buying anything from PEG for about 5 years straight until I  was picking up Low-Life. ("This says "Great White Games..must be different guys")

...and then I got Savage Worlds later.

Just thinking about it though kinda annoys me.

Jesus, and then you wondered why their D20 conversions sucked ass... :rolleyes:

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#18
July 07, 2007, 10:47:52 AM
Other publishers have done this sort of thing.  Lots of fantasy heartbreaker authors drag down D&D, completely oblivious to the the fact that D&D players are their primary audience.  I've seen other examples.
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Bradford C. Walker

#19
July 12, 2007, 01:56:36 AM
This is the sort of thing that gets me going with the facepalms and the exacerbated sighs.
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