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<blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 7534407" data-attributes="member: 6976536"><p>Are the rules really ridiculous if a lot of people want to play under those rules? I'm not being facetious here, I don't think it's fair to tell people that playing under a set of rules that they like and a bunch of other people like a 'ridiculous'. I'm generally more in favor of a low amount of restrictions, but if there are people wanting to play all kobolds or no gnomes or Dark Sun by the book I don't think it's bad for them to do so. That's been my bone of contention with others, that they're saying 'these people are playing wrong for wanting a game with rule X that I don't like, they should ignore rule X because I think it's reasonable to do so'. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That depends a lot on the group setup. A lot people play in groups that are more 'what friends and FOFs have schedules that line up on day X and want to join this campaign' than 'this group of people will play together indefinitely and the game should include all of them'. The people in 'married' groups tend to value group unity over anything else (and tend to run into various Geek Social Fallacies), while the people in 'shared hobby' groups that just happen to play together tend to switch around games and expect that some people won't be interested in a particular campaign.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dessert Nomad, post: 7534407, member: 6976536"] Are the rules really ridiculous if a lot of people want to play under those rules? I'm not being facetious here, I don't think it's fair to tell people that playing under a set of rules that they like and a bunch of other people like a 'ridiculous'. I'm generally more in favor of a low amount of restrictions, but if there are people wanting to play all kobolds or no gnomes or Dark Sun by the book I don't think it's bad for them to do so. That's been my bone of contention with others, that they're saying 'these people are playing wrong for wanting a game with rule X that I don't like, they should ignore rule X because I think it's reasonable to do so'. That depends a lot on the group setup. A lot people play in groups that are more 'what friends and FOFs have schedules that line up on day X and want to join this campaign' than 'this group of people will play together indefinitely and the game should include all of them'. The people in 'married' groups tend to value group unity over anything else (and tend to run into various Geek Social Fallacies), while the people in 'shared hobby' groups that just happen to play together tend to switch around games and expect that some people won't be interested in a particular campaign. [/QUOTE]
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