I've been in the gaming group in question longer than most folks. (I'm 2nd-crustiest in terms of time played, and 3rd in terms of start date). And I play d20, and WoD, and have in the (distant) past been known to dress up and pretend to be a vampire. I don't have a background in the humanities, and I strongly resent the suggestion that I am not goofy.
So right now, the ad would exclude me. It might even have scared me off. (I joined on Brian's recommendation, not via an ad like this.)
So perhaps a reword is in order.
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I think that it might be worthwhile to consider WHY you come down so hard on various games.
I'd claim that we're rejecting d20 and Palladium because we're rejecting RPGs that are overblown tactical combat games. I'd claim we're rejecting WoD because we reject melodrama and pointless pretension in our RPing. I'd claim that giving the latter clauses in our advertisement rather than the former would a) do a better job of communicating what we really want and b) scare off less people.
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Something else to consider: perhaps with the ad so strictly worded, we're scaring off solid people, and ending up with more respondents who are so desperate for a game they're willing to put up with or ignore the tone of the ad. And possibly the message too.
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I've been in the gaming group in question longer than most folks. (I'm 2nd-crustiest in terms of time played, and 3rd in terms of start date). And I play d20, and WoD, and have in the (distant) past been known to dress up and pretend to be a vampire. I don't have a background in the humanities, and I strongly resent the suggestion that I am not goofy.
So right now, the ad would exclude me. It might even have scared me off. (I joined on Brian's recommendation, not via an ad like this.)
So perhaps a reword is in order.
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I think that it might be worthwhile to consider WHY you come down so hard on various games.
I'd claim that we're rejecting d20 and Palladium because we're rejecting RPGs that are overblown tactical combat games. I'd claim we're rejecting WoD because we reject melodrama and pointless pretension in our RPing. I'd claim that giving the latter clauses in our advertisement rather than the former would a) do a better job of communicating what we really want and b) scare off less people.
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Something else to consider: perhaps with the ad so strictly worded, we're scaring off solid people, and ending up with more respondents who are so desperate for a game they're willing to put up with or ignore the tone of the ad. And possibly the message too.