You know what is really frustrating? When you ask a question (say, I need some ideas for Manse defenses. Here's the storyline I'm running with. Can you help out? Any cool stuff you've done in your game?) and get this in response:
"Blah, you're not running with perfect canon!"
Um, yeah. I said that.
"Here, I will tell you what REAL canon says!"
That's nice. How about you give me some Manse ideas?
"God, your game is fucking stupid. No [plot point/NPC of a specific type] would EVER [happen like that/act like that].
Um, then what the fuck are the renegades THAT THE BOOKS TALK ABOUT? EH? Also, what happened to, oh I don't know, ST trumps all?
"I WOULD give you ideas, but only if you change your game to match canon."
No. Fuckwad.
Similar arguments have happened in the past, in slightly different contexts:
Hey guys, I'd like to try advancing a setting (let's say "Prisons and Phreaks") forward to X time period, assuming a similar trajectory to what the real world experienced. How would you do this? What sort of tweaks would you make to the system in order to accomodate X, Y, and Z technological advances? Please keep in mind that the point is to use this system to try this style of game, not find a system that runs X time period.
"Try this other game, it does X time period much better!"
"Don't use Prisons and Phreaks, it can't do that type of game."
"You're an idiot for wanting to do that."
That is all.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!
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