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D&D Was Never a Game, It Was a Hidden, Complex Tool

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Greetings Nerds, Geeks, and Gamers of all kinds. Nate the Nerdarch here.

This is my first time doing this so please bear with me.

It has come to my attention that an article on Nerdarchy.com, the article that was previously in this link, did not meet Nerdarchy’s standards for articles when it was posted, and unfortunately, it was published. This was an error and we are correcting it. That is why the article was removed and this letter has taken its place.

The article was removed for several reasons. All of which conflict with the type of site Nerdarchy.com wants to be.

  1. It was pure speculation without stating that it was just speculation. It attributed motives and desires of historical figures without interviews or references to back it up. There are parody sites out there and we are not interested in being one.
  2. It was unbelievable enough that the editor believed it was written as a parody, a joke. While the editor who published the article thought it was a parody, a significant portion of our readership did not think it. We are not interested in confusing our readers. EDIT: for Clarity. Upon reading the author’s reply in the comments, stating that it was not written as a joke, the editor took down the original article.
  3. We consider the overall message of the article undermines Nerdarchy’s mission to grow nerd culture and nerdy hobbies.

Here, at Nerdarchy.com, as well as Nerdarchy in general, we encourage the diverse group of writers who write articles on our site to exercise their freedom to explore any topic as long as the topic is relevant to our overall mission. That mission is to assist in the growing of nerd culture and the hobbies associated with it, like D&D.

In the end we believe that the referenced article failed to meet that standard. Worse than that, it was deleterious to the overall mission of Nerdarchy.

Sorry for any confusion this may have caused and thank you for your time and consideration.

Stay Nerdy,

Nate the Nerdarch

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12 Comments

  • Scott Dracula
    June 20, 2017 at 7:37 am

    What a piece of garbage.

    • Dave Friant
      June 22, 2017 at 6:58 am

      This is a bit far afield of the content we at Nerdarchy intend to host. Therefore it has been pulled. It slipped past our over worked volunteer staff.
      -Nerdarchist Dave

  • wellzzer01
    June 20, 2017 at 8:07 am

    Strange bird… Isn’t it just simpler, and more grounded, to say that D&D was a war game? I struggle to imagine that the Moon landing was more influential on D&D than chain mail.

    • wellzzer01
      June 26, 2017 at 12:38 pm

      Oh wow it looks there was a reason to be quite confused! My sympathies go out to Nerdarchy. It would be nice to have spot for these kinds of meta-hobby discussions, but it looks like all my initial reservations were confirmed. I half wondered if it was satire too.

  • HadrianV
    June 20, 2017 at 11:07 am

    I honestly cannot tell if this is a joke, or some sort of delusion.

    • Scott Garibay
      June 20, 2017 at 12:17 pm

      This is a 100 percent genuine explanation of the current state of Dungeons and Dragons (which is as the IWOR Tool). There is not a single word of joking or fiction in this article. I understand that people will struggle to see what I am now seeing. When others who have the vantage to see (having read every edition DND DMG, PHB and MM cover to cover, having read 200+ other TRPGs, having studied Gary Gygax’s life (including the multiple books written about him), having a degree in Political Science and a Masters Degree in Technology)) then others will see what I am seeing. What is shown here is fact and others with the same vantage will see it clearly as fact.

  • jgsnyder
    June 20, 2017 at 11:52 am

    Just getting into this site…and wow…just about ready to never come back. WTH is this crap?

    • Dave Friant
      June 20, 2017 at 10:31 pm

      I’ll hope you will reconsider and look at some of our other articles. This one should of never went up, but some how slipped by our volunteer editor. This is NOT the kind of content we want to host here at Nerdarchy.
      -Nerdarchist Dave

  • Marc Stephens
    June 20, 2017 at 12:47 pm

    > from a specific vantage, a high vantage

    Yeah, a VERY HIGH vantage.

  • RPGGURU
    June 20, 2017 at 1:25 pm

    Having worked with TSR back in the 80s and with Gygax and Gygax jr, I have to say this is very singular opinionated piece of tabloid trash at best. I am saddened to see it on nerdarchy.com

    • Dave Friant
      June 20, 2017 at 10:26 pm

      You aren’t alone with being saddened to see this grace the pages of nerdarchy. I can assure there will tighter oversight going forward with our volunteers.
      -Nerdarchist Dave

  • Roberta
    June 21, 2017 at 1:49 am

    Sounds like you want to start a religion.

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