[Discuss] "roleplaying island"

[Matt Runyon]

James wrote:
> Matt Runyon wrote:
>> And?  That doesn't address my point.  Just because we can't show that 
>> it is a forgery doesn't mean we don't know what it is.  If someone 
>> shows a movie that looks like a Steven Spielberg, and no one can tell 
>> the difference, it doesn't matter if Spielberg says he didn't make 
>> the movie.
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> This isn't a movie and the people you are interviewing are saying it 
> is truthful.  As Tom said in the message, there are tons of paintings 
> that are discovered years later as forgeries.  These are in museum 
> that have experts looking over them.
Yes, but those forgeries don't have the artist (read, ruler/duke) loudly 
exclaiming that he never made the painting.  Even if the experts say 
it's one of his, I'm going to buy what the artist says over the "experts".