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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 5855414" data-attributes="member: 17106">Not everyone is playing the same game. It is abundantly clear to me from reading these boards and from meeting other players that everyone who plays D&D is playing a different game than everyone else who is playing D&D. That's the nature of the business. Why pretend otherwise?If the players don't correctly guess how the game is going to be played, there should be some opportunity for respec-ing, because that certainly does happen.Obviously it depends on the situation, but for any complaint that is primarily subjective (pain, nausea, etc.) I would absolutely expect different diagnoses from different doctors (especially if they are different specialties). If you try the same case in three different courts you'll get three different rulings. Objectivity is something of an illusion, regardless of what domain you're in. That's especially true in a fantasy roleplaying game.Really? I don't expect a typical response for even the most basic action. If I'm playing zombie horror, I expect that I can shoot and nail a zombie in the head reliably. If I'm playing CoC, I expect that I'll rarely if ever inflict harm on anything, even if I'm making an attack with the same bonus against a walking corpse. If I try to convince a guard to let me into a prison, his response depends very much on whether the game I'm playing is high adventure or hard realism. It all depends on style, on what kind of story you're telling.</blockquote>

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