Are you an apologist? Ill bet you are.... (The person is talking about a games flawed rule system, but his argument is equally applicable to, say, whatever horseshit some group of thieves passing themselves off as founding fathers enacted to anoint themselves tax-collectors.) _______ ...Every time someone makes a proposition or suggestion for the game you should try to figure out whether the suggestion is good or bad for the game, and then you should write responses to it. But run yourself through a check each time where you invert the situation. Ask yourself in this case; would you argue for the REMOVAL of selling prices if they were already in the game? Meaning if the game had gone to print with rules for selling items would you argue that those sections of the book should be removed? That GMs should know how to make up their own trade prices for every item in the book and that those sections prevent you from having a better game? I would wager not. I would wager that if someone asked to remove those sections that you would argue with them as you are arguing with me now. That you would argue not based on the issue, but to -keep the book in its current form-. If this is true for you then it is likely that you are an apologist. Thats ok though, thats not unusual. Its a natural reaction to become proprietary over things you like and when someone points out flaws in that thing you react emotionally rather than logically. Your first reaction is to excuse or rationalize, and not to analyze and think critically. Well….just…..stop doing that. The Designers are not some group of geniuses with a vision mere mortals shouldnt temper with lest we ruin their perfect craft....
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:12:42 +0000
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