For those of you who are unfamiliar with Poe's Law, it runs something like this:
"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody...that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
So with grateful thanks to Fools Jest, on whose blog I found this and thought "Hahahahahaha!", we have the following example:
Er...this is a parody, right?
Early TSR Modules: A Study in Style
-
1978
B1 In Search of the Unknown -- Classic dungeon crawl which was designed to
train DMs in stocking and to some extent designing dungeons
D1 Descent i...
11 hours ago
Heh. It is until someone in WOTC management gets a hold of it.
ReplyDeleteIt was WOTC's own April fools joke. They are actually snarking back at their detractors.
ReplyDelete@the-never - but that's just the point of Poe's Law; a parody that a lot of those who don't like 4e would have no trouble believing.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people who saw that probably thought "There's a lot of truth in that".
So is it an own goal by WotC? Or have they displayed an ironic self-awareness and an ability to laugh at themselves?
Truth in jest perhaps.
ReplyDelete