Comments on: The Rule of Cool: A Useful Tool

By: Norman Harman

Norman Harman — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:39:21 +0000

Damn, I wish you’d posted this at the beginning of this poostorm.

Extremely clear and enlightened explanation/observations.

By: Qwilion

Qwilion — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:46:43 +0000

I just wanted to point out that per TVtropes.org

A trope is not good
A trope is not bad

You can take the Rule of Cool, justify it(Talisanta) deconstruct it (Awesome yet Practical), and even avert it (I would site how the 4E players is written like a VCR manual). or prefrm a double subversion (the 4e DMG is written so well and is so helpful its cool).

You are absolutly right about confimation bias and the examples someone provides, as a primary example of the trope “Your mileage may very”

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:11:44 +0000

Wow! What a nice response. I’m touched.

Just so you know, Noisms, one of the original two who posted against it did somewhat of a turnaround when, the next day, he couldn’t explain why he liked Sigil so much while it was such a patently illogical setting for a city… He graciously conceded that I might have been on to something.

By: greywulf

greywulf — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:17:01 +0000

Amen to that.