Well a professor once told me that you can't over-read into a poem so long as you can support your opinion with in the piece.
If anything, it's about the uselessness of using a term like "artificially" to describe certain concepts. In order for a thing to be artificially difficult there would need to be a natural or default difficulty.
It probably could be read that way, but I wrote this literally about someone who I briefly played D&D with and complained about how "artificially difficult" the version I ran was.
She is one person I don't really feel bad about not being friends with anymore. There was some other fallout over the situation that prompted this.
But seriously, when playing one of the earliest versions of a game, its difficulty should be taken as a default.
Shit like that, people crying about how hard the game I am running is, is why I have basically stopped trying to run anything based on D&D.
