Are There Any Valid Criticisms? (aka Kalessin's Rant) - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 04-08-2002, 03:35 AM

Aiwendil, I'm glad to learn that education is apparently improving in America again - although neither yours nor Lush's experiences can be construed to define the whole - still one may hope.

Your considered responses reveal that you are meticulous in intellect and must be a meticulous DM. We cannot be confident that this is true of most DMs.

I'm aware of the distinction between 'hard' and 'soft' science fiction. I accept your distinction as far as it goes. I have read Clarke's 'Rendesvous with Rama' and 'Childhood's End', as well as a piece by an author, whose name nor title of book I can recall, about how life evolved on a neutron star. I've also read a fair amount of (his name escapes me!) the author of Dune. So excluding these obviously scientifically based 'hard' science fiction works, my statement still holds.

But can anything be done to improve the situation Kalessin bemoans in his rants 1 & 2?

04-08-2002, 03:35 AM	#11
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Aiwendil, I'm glad to learn that education is apparently improving in America again - although neither yours nor Lush's experiences can be construed to define the whole - still one may hope. Your considered responses reveal that you are meticulous in intellect and must be a meticulous DM. We cannot be confident that this is true of most DMs. I'm aware of the distinction between 'hard' and 'soft' science fiction. I accept your distinction as far as it goes. I have read Clarke's 'Rendesvous with Rama' and 'Childhood's End', as well as a piece by an author, whose name nor title of book I can recall, about how life evolved on a neutron star. I've also read a fair amount of (his name escapes me!) the author of Dune. So excluding these obviously scientifically based 'hard' science fiction works, my statement still holds. But can anything be done to improve the situation Kalessin bemoans in his rants 1 & 2?