That’s content undermining. It might not happen for every reader, but it happened for this one. And it has not one bit of anything to do with how you behaved in 2007. I only know you as the dude who brought Aeternal Legends to IPR.

Regards,

ZOOROOS

Now read this, which says straight out that I’m not criticising Dictionary of Mu as anything other than hopping on a tired trend — the way I noted Mage, which I worked on did. That’s the whole reason I said it was inappropriate for him to nick that entire excerpt – only one sentence is really about Dictionary of Mu exclusively. It’s why it’s in the same para as those other games.

Do I regret citing it at all? Hell no. I call it as I see it. And as I see it, “It’s the Bible mixed with Conan the Barbarian!” is exactly representative of a high-concept trend that’s been driven into the ground by overuse.

Did it “undermine my content?” I don’t think so. Part of the point is that this applies to everybody – me, you, Judd, everybody. These aren’t the only five things I think could stand to be put to bed, either, but a blog post can only be so long, and there are some things (like dungeon fantasy/elves) that will never go away and aren’t worth mentioning for that reason.

(There’s also a specific way this post was written that I may cover in the future. Remember this in case I do.)

Look at it this way. Over in Judd’s post there’s also something about “He mentioned your book in the same breath as Eberron and Exalted!” as if this is a subversion of what I was trying to say – but it’s exactly what I was trying to say. And that choice of interpretation strikes me as more about how I was mean to people in 2007 than anything happening in the here and now, as comments like this indicate.