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Of course, because it is utterly impossible to consider a different perspective, that's why all of human history we've never been able to see things or discuss things that we did not personally experience. You know, conversations would go faster if instead of just trying to sink them at every...

And how can you know that, if you don't talk to them and see what they mean? If they go "I have an idea for an evil pc I think-" and you cut them off immediately with a "I said no evil pcs. That is no evil pcs. If you don't like it, take a hike" then how can you possibly know if their idea is...

I've been stuck working a minimum wage job for years. Bet you make more money than me. Does that make you a better person? A harder worker? Smarter? or just luckier because you didn't have your career destroyed from under you after a decade+ of work toward it and were forced to start from...

That is not what I said. 1) I said that the DM and the Player's idea of evil might be different. Therefore a conversation should be had, because the DM might not say no to the player's ACTUAL idea 2) I said that compromise might be possible. If the player wants to be "evil" for the aesthetic...

I would wager 90% of the time when it is a simple yes or no, it is either a factual matter about the rules (in which case a discussion should be had about the rules so the player understand them going forward) or it is a matter so trivial there is no reason not to say yes. "Can I re-flavor a...

It is certainly amusing that people who have dealt with players having cancer, getting into car accidents, dealing with dying family members seem to think they understand how to talk to people and compromise on in-game features like species and homebrew rules. Why, OBVIOUSLY the two are...

And so we get right back to EzekielRaiden's point, the one that they get raked over the coals and lashed with thorns over. Because we have, immediately, from multiple posters, gone to "but what if it is irreconcilable?" But you know, Oofta just posted an "irreconcilable" problem not too long...

This line of argument always annoys me. Yes, a DM often does more "work" than the players. That is what they CHOSE to do. For many that is what they ENJOY doing. This always reads to me like the person who insists on cooking alone, enjoys cooking, then moaning about how "they slaved away at a...

Nice side-step of the issue. You know in many groups, that attitude wil lead to a bunch of pissed off people leaving the table and never coming back, right? It won't happen to you, I know, because none of your friends care enough and they all have multiple years of friendship to handle that...

Read my post again. I was responding to Swarmkeeper taking EzekielRaiden to task for assuming that no conversation would happen. ANd here you are, stating that basically no conversation would happen. You have plenty of players willing to play, so you don't need to compromise with someone who...

If the problem is the conversation taking up game time, doesn't having time for the conversation solve that problem?

If that is all fine, why try and shame me for my previous statement? Clearly it wasn't fine. And, no, I might be willing to look at other options. But if I ask someone "why should I by a Ford instead of any other care brand" and their answer is "because it is a four-wheeled vehicle you can...

Hi waves Had a game where we were dealing with neo-nazis and a potential "righteous" gnoll genocide. We stopped the game. DM liked his idea, and had invested a lot into the gnolls as enemies. We thought people fighting neo-nazi's shouldn't be genociding people based on biological determinism...

Almost like we should have a whole session, before the game begins, for these types of discussions. Something that happens before session one, where people don't feel like discussing these things wastes game time. If only we had a name for them...

The DM grabs popcorn? Why doesn't the DM with their ultimate authority over all things at the table simply say "No, your characters will be okay with this paladin joining the party." You do have ultimate unquestioned authority to decide this, right? You can just force the group to obey. Or is...

This is literally true of every single possible character archetype and offers me nothing specific. It was fun to play a prideful warrior of a jungle cult. It was interesting to explore the personality of a man seeking nothing more than to find a worthy master to serve. Also, you changed the...

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None of this really contradicts or says anything about what I was responding to, except to double down on it. Okay, you'd allow a non-dwarf character in a dwarf game. Cool. There are still limits you won't budge on. And in this moment I am not judging you, just pointing out that since that is...

You aren't actually answering the question, and what you say here is part of the problem. Peter Parker has been married multiple times, and had that marriage destroyed or undone every single time. And those things happened, so, unless your name is Charlie Brown, the next time you see Peter...

None for me implies there are some for someone else. So what am I missing out on by not playing a callous money-grubber of a character? You felt the need to call me out as being unfair by declaring this as what I prefer to do, and not seeing the point of doing it another way, but you don't feel...