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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2986083" data-attributes="member: 30035">I really enjoyed all your different possible permutations of the situation. It really emphasizes how language can be interpreted differently by each individual. It ties into a discussion I've had many times with one of my gaming friends, specifically over the use of miniatures. My friend doesn't really like using miniatures because he feels players attach too much importance to them and think of them as too concrete an example of appearances. I disagree because minis can give players something visual to attach a description to. If someone tells me "You walk into a room that is 100' long" I don't necessarily have a concrete concept of how big that is - what I see in my mind's eye may be completely different than what the GM and other players visualize. I may be imagining a truly vast chamber while the player sitting next to me just envisions a room a little bigger than his living room. We both know conceptually how big 100' is, but imagining that in relation to an equally imaginary game character is more difficult and relies on a lot of other factors that can differ widely from one individual to another.Your analysis points out how much individual experience influences our responses. If a player doesn't know what oiling means in relation to a shield, how will he respond to that part of the description? That's where the jokes about attacking gazebos come from; we don't all have the same vocabulary skills. No one can ever assume that what the speaker says is exactly accurate to what the listener hears. You're right, it is a wonder we ever manage to have any fun.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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