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  Re: What difficultly level do you play one? Zersterer <nochsfentor@yahoo.com> - 2024-07-15 15:10 -0500

#35945 — Re: What difficultly level do you play one?

Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:19:42 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Here I'll weigh in.
>>
>> But kids' marketing sucked. Look at the D&D cartoon series. You meet both
>> Tiamat and Lloth in the first season. Tiamat shows up in the first
>> episode! The way it was marketed to children affected a generation of
>> players. Those players only sometimes matured out of that sort of game.
> 
> That marketing is a very interesting point I hadn't considered,
> although I wouldn't entirely blame it on kids. But TSR (and, really,
> any marketing agency worth its salt) wanted to focus on the exciting
> bits of their products: in D&D's case, the big battles, the horrific
> monsters, the glittering loot. They aren't what actually make the game
> fun (IMHO, YMMV, OTLAMA) but they're eye-catching. It's the sizzle to
> the steak. You see mighty-hewed barbarians slicing through a dragon's
> neck and being rewarded chests of gold and jewels and think, "Hey,
> what's that all about? That looks interesting!" You pick up the books
> and play.


Yeah, but Tiamat is the toughest monster out there...  Save some for the 
rest of the ditsy twaddle cartoon.  It's like meeting God on your 5th 
birthday.

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