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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9510945" data-attributes="member: 6785785">So in your post that I quoted, you mentioned that you’d be concerned about players abusing the kind of authorial influence we’ve been talking about. That was a new idea introduced to the conversation, and that’s what I asked about.Instead of talking about that, you respond with the above. Which, as you point out, you’ve said before. Can’t we talk about that instead? About the idea that players can abuse the authority and how D&amp;D doesn’t have sufficient “guardrails” to prevent that? That was an interesting thought. I’ve said I’m interested in examining why we have the preferences we do. I’ve made that obvious. I’ve flat out said that’s what I’m asking about. If you’re not interested in doing that, then that’s fine… but you can just not respond or respond with a simple “I’m not interested in talking about why I have the preferences I have”. You don’t need to type an essay that says nothing new. And you’ll have to forgive me for assuming that someone who’s taken part in a discussion as long as you have… who’s made as many posts as you and who seems to have strong feelings about the topic of rule zero and player authority… might have some thoughts that are deeper about the topic than they do about the type of jelly they like on their toast.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 9510945, member: 6785785"] So in your post that I quoted, you mentioned that you’d be concerned about players abusing the kind of authorial influence we’ve been talking about. That was a new idea introduced to the conversation, and that’s what I asked about. Instead of talking about that, you respond with the above. Which, as you point out, you’ve said before. Can’t we talk about that instead? About the idea that players can abuse the authority and how D&D doesn’t have sufficient “guardrails” to prevent that? That was an interesting thought. I’ve said I’m interested in examining why we have the preferences we do. I’ve made that obvious. I’ve flat out said that’s what I’m asking about. If you’re not interested in doing that, then that’s fine… but you can just not respond or respond with a simple “I’m not interested in talking about why I have the preferences I have”. You don’t need to type an essay that says nothing new. And you’ll have to forgive me for assuming that someone who’s taken part in a discussion as long as you have… who’s made as many posts as you and who seems to have strong feelings about the topic of rule zero and player authority… might have some thoughts that are deeper about the topic than they do about the type of jelly they like on their toast. [/QUOTE]

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