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Old School player comes back to GenCon searching for D&D action

Started by Benoist, September 02, 2009, 04:03:47 PM

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Thanlis

#30
September 03, 2009, 07:28:18 AM
Quote from: thecasualoblivion;326264The base 3.5E forum at ENWorld gets more traffic than the Pathfinder Forum there. Take from that what you will.

Well, it's early days. I dunno, I'm trying not to draw any conclusions for a few months till sales settle down and people get a chance to really play.

mhensley

#31
September 03, 2009, 09:04:59 AM
Quote from: Imperator;326354I found the original story absolutely retarded and a really terrible shill? / shrill? Not sure. Anyway, bullshit.

Shill is the word you're looking for.  If you recall, Massawyrm posted some gushing 4e reviews

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35776
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35799
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35811

before the game out (he was in a playtest group with D&D freelancer Ari Marmell IIRC).  I'd bet that this whole story is fake and is purely a paid product endorsement for Pathfinder just as I think the 4e reviews he did were part of the same marketing campaign that gives us 4e podcasts from Penny Arcade.

thedungeondelver

#32
September 03, 2009, 09:21:41 AM
Yeah, AICN is just about the last place...no, check that, the last place to go to for journalistically honest unbiased reviews.

I don't think anyone really doesn't know any more that I think that 4e sucks, 3e sucks, 2e sucks and I'm really not crazy about Mentzer's basic...and I found that to be a dreadful piece of "journalism".  At the IT magazine I write for, I'd get laughed off the staff for turning in a piece like that.
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Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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