Ridiculing the Ignorant Pt 1 (Old Blog)

This is going to be an unfortunately regular series of articles, some short and others long, in which I ridicule the ignorant and uninformed, simply because they appear not to have a solution to an obvious problem.

Notwithstanding the fact that RPG.net has been a topic of discussion, I shall pick on one poor sod. http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=242875

In this very short thread, the author, has bought an old ADND boxed set of Dark Sun. He declines to say whether it is 1st or 2nd edition, but it only really matters depending on if you think Brom is Dark Sun and vice versa.

In the thread the guy has read the setting and books (I doubt in details) but then beggars the question as to what to do with the game. I'm sorry but if you have read that much material and are still fucking clueless, then you really are in the wrong hobby!

Just answering/replying to this guy surely must rank you as a prick or at the very least encouraging the jerk. Suggesting he buy the supplements (by a follow-up poster) to make a workable game actually playable is so funny, that its sad. I mean if you are that bereft of ideas that even Dark Sun leaves you a fuckwit, Im glad you are not my DM!

I think it is fair to say that regardless of how poor or badly written (Im sure I will prove myself wrong very soon) role-playing material is, at the very least it must stimulate the mind, otherwise why read it. Just watch the tv instead!

Originally posted 30/01/2006