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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2587407" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>What's so wrong with both finding a compromise based on true needs? Why should either side be inflexible? </p><p></p><p>Let's take a quote from you and modify it:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree with the original quote. I feel this one is completely equal. Would you?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No.</p><p></p><p>It's not baking cookies for a town. It's picking pizza toppings with some friends. Five different friends want five different things on one pizza. If the guy with the phone says "Look, I want Onions and Anchovies, and I have the phone, so that's what we're getting. You can go have a burger if you don't like it." That's a simple power play, in the most basic sociological sense of the concept. Now, maybe that power play is rewarded. Maybe Anchovies and Onions are the most popular pizza toppings in a ten-mile radius, and people are lining up to eat his pizza. That doesn't mean that he was right, it just means that he's popular. No one was RIGHT. No one was WRONG. It just changed who was eating the pizza.</p><p></p><p>Now, when I'm the guy with the phone, I'd rather help my friends then be popular. I don't care what EVERYBODY wants, I just want something that my friends will eat and be reasonably content with. Sure, I have the final say, I have the authority. But I'm not going to tell my friends to get lost if they don't like my choice. We'll reach a compromise. Maybe I'll have to pick off the pepperonis, and maybe Ed won't get those green peppers.</p><p></p><p>It's not a binary absolute. It's a continuum. And the difference between them is merely a difference in goals. </p><p></p><p>Now, when extrapolating that to D&D, which do you think the written books should cater to? Which do you think is more common, more frequent, with more potential customers? The man who has a knack to order the most popular pizza around? Or the one that advocates compromise? Would it be wrong for someone to be told it's okay to have sausage if the DM only wants Onions and Anchovies?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 2587407, member: 2067"] What's so wrong with both finding a compromise based on true needs? Why should either side be inflexible? Let's take a quote from you and modify it: I agree with the original quote. I feel this one is completely equal. Would you? No. It's not baking cookies for a town. It's picking pizza toppings with some friends. Five different friends want five different things on one pizza. If the guy with the phone says "Look, I want Onions and Anchovies, and I have the phone, so that's what we're getting. You can go have a burger if you don't like it." That's a simple power play, in the most basic sociological sense of the concept. Now, maybe that power play is rewarded. Maybe Anchovies and Onions are the most popular pizza toppings in a ten-mile radius, and people are lining up to eat his pizza. That doesn't mean that he was right, it just means that he's popular. No one was RIGHT. No one was WRONG. It just changed who was eating the pizza. Now, when I'm the guy with the phone, I'd rather help my friends then be popular. I don't care what EVERYBODY wants, I just want something that my friends will eat and be reasonably content with. Sure, I have the final say, I have the authority. But I'm not going to tell my friends to get lost if they don't like my choice. We'll reach a compromise. Maybe I'll have to pick off the pepperonis, and maybe Ed won't get those green peppers. It's not a binary absolute. It's a continuum. And the difference between them is merely a difference in goals. Now, when extrapolating that to D&D, which do you think the written books should cater to? Which do you think is more common, more frequent, with more potential customers? The man who has a knack to order the most popular pizza around? Or the one that advocates compromise? Would it be wrong for someone to be told it's okay to have sausage if the DM only wants Onions and Anchovies? [/QUOTE]
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