"Players" Discovered Defusing Edition War Riots

July 7, 2014
SEATTLE, WA

We had several pieces ready to run this week, detailing the factions participating in the Edition War Riots in and around Seattle. As our reporters gathered more and more interviews, we noticed a curious trend. People arrived at the various camps, asking only to play. To learn a new game system. To enjoy the experience and the company of fellow gamers.

Remember Thursday?

Some of these people stopped in several different camps, asking to play a game in each one. They had no agenda, no central organization, and no name. In most cases they weren't even aware of each other.

We started calling them simply "Players."

When a Player arrived at a camp, he or she magnetically pulled the militant gamers to the nearest table to share a game. Their passion for play tapped into the passion that converted the System Faithful in the first place, and everyone focused on enjoying the game together. The more everyone played, the less important the camps became.

Edition War Riots Leave 11 Wounded in Seattle

July 3, 2014
SEATTLE, WA

After years of simmering in internet forums across the globe, Edition War Riots broke out in earnest early today, leaving 11 gamers wounded in Seattle. Tensions are still running high, though most of the hostilities have ceased for the time being.

Sometimes min-maxing
requires dismantling.

The riots began with words and gestures expressing various opinions about today's release of D&D Basic, but graduated to thrown dice almost immediately. Tensions escalated when a bearded man wielding a Pathfinder Core Rulebook went down with 2d8 damage to the eyes. His allies called in d20 Modern troops armed with automatic weapons, but AD&D adventurers freshly returned from the Barrier Peaks quickly cleared the streets with dazzling light beams shot from several powerful alien artifacts.

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