Post by Shelby on Jan 10, 2022 10:15:31 GMT -8
I am reminded of issue 154 of Dragon Magazine, wherein Jim Ward proudly proclaims that he ordered the removal of demons & devils from the 2nd ed AD&D game because they received about one letter per week from angry mothers. What an idiot.
A mother who rejects listing monsters for the kids to oppose isn't going to be a good customer. Figure it out.
In the same article Ward opines that D&D games should be about heroic, good quests, and that's what TSR will provide. Except that D&D is based on Sword & Sorcery fiction, epitomized by RE Howard's Conan and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Mouser, fiction about rogues out to kill something, score its treasure, and then squander it on carousing. Heroic, good quests are not what D&D was written to emulate.
And Ward knew that damned well.
So what he's really saying (smugly and self-righteously) is that he's pandering to the holy rollers in the vague hope that TSR can sell more books. While offending the very fans it was originally designed to attract.
I can't believe that this guy is the source of so much I despise.
A mother who rejects listing monsters for the kids to oppose isn't going to be a good customer. Figure it out.
In the same article Ward opines that D&D games should be about heroic, good quests, and that's what TSR will provide. Except that D&D is based on Sword & Sorcery fiction, epitomized by RE Howard's Conan and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Mouser, fiction about rogues out to kill something, score its treasure, and then squander it on carousing. Heroic, good quests are not what D&D was written to emulate.
And Ward knew that damned well.
So what he's really saying (smugly and self-righteously) is that he's pandering to the holy rollers in the vague hope that TSR can sell more books. While offending the very fans it was originally designed to attract.
I can't believe that this guy is the source of so much I despise.