When faced with a bad review.

[judd_sonofbert]

Graciously thank the reviewer for taking the time to read and review your work.

Thank you, Malcolm.

"Dictionary of Mu marked the final degeneration from “trend” to “affectation” and finally, “masturbation.” By and large, strangeness for strangeness’ sake (mixed with pulp pastiche as part of a male-nerd thing) is getting monotonous. “It has a

Comments

[gillan]

I think Geist (which I worked on) is the last decent implementation to be had before it’s time to say goodbye to this one.

Hahahaha. CREDIBILITY.

[xamses]

Yeah, seriously.

[jeffwik]

Dictionary of Mu would not be third on my list of overly inclusive kitchen-sink fantasy settings, especially not if the first two items on my list were Exalted and Eberron. Given the much larger distribution of every other game mentioned in the post, I have to wonder whether he wrote "Dictionary of Mu" accidentially, while meaning to write, I dunno, virtually anything else.

[eyebeams]

Poor credibility would be if I didn't say I worked on it. I do honestly believe that Geist spins the concept in a way that Mummy and Changeling: The Dreaming didn't, but you'll have to judge for yourself when it comes out.

[wickedthought]

The process of putting a piece of creative effort into the public square requires a certain degree of bravery.

The profession of criticizing the creative efforts of others requires a certain degree of cowardice.

[gillan]

I don't follow. How does it require cowardice?

[tundra_no_caps]

Eh.

"Shoot the critic" is something I'm not a fan of as a blanket-statement.

[wickedthought]

"Let the critic go through the creative process and make something of his own so he can speak first-hand about the process itself and lend insight to the reader instead of finding clever and cruel ways to say 'I didn't like it'."

How's that?

[matt_rah]

Also, L5R? Isn't that based much, much more on Japan than China?

Matt

[warriorbtch]

Yeah, that's what I thought too from looking at it...

[matt_rah]

I mean, I never read an actual L5R book, but I have the DnD3E Oriental Adventures book, which has the L5R license and uses it as the default setting.

Matt

[eyebeams]

That's why I said "Chinese cultural sphere," not "China." I'm talking about regions where the relationships to Chinese cultural traditions can be (very roughly) seen as similar to the relationships much of Europe has with Rome. That includes Japan, Korea, the Ryukyu Kingdom and other countries/areas in much the same way that everywhere from France to Romania come from the Roman sphere -- distinct, but sharing certain influences.

Critique

[judd_sonofbert]

I'd love to hear any and all critical thoughts you have on Mu, Brand, either publically or privately via e-mail (or by phone for that matter).

[Applauds]

[ext_122177]

You, sir, have got some seriously high levels of Buddha-nature. Good on you for subverting the internet bullsh*t and making it your own.