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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6475646" data-attributes="member: 6787503">Dear Paul,Your insistence that others follow a loosey-goosey play-style ignores the fact that 5e was written for ALL play-styles. Here you are again telling me that I'm not allowed to think a certain way when I consider how things work in this game because that's on a need-to-know basis somehow. It isn't an issue of whether I need to know why they gave the Cat this or that bonus. I'm perfectly capable of forgetting about any of this and just playing the game as-written. For some people, and you may not be one of them, contemplation of the rules and mechanics of the game are a subject of interest in and of itself. In a forum such as this I would expect to find many such people. I don't see how shutting down such discussions with a claim that they are inappropriate or even detrimental to the enjoyment of the game is at all constructive. I know it was made up. My interest in this discussion is why they made it up the way they did and what are the implications that can be drawn from such decisions when considered within the larger framework of the game as a whole. The assertion that you seem to be making, that there is no such framework, is deeply unsatisfying to me as an explanation of design elements. As I said above, I've never played 3rd or 4th edition. Most of my experience has been with AD&D, and as you may know, the design of monsters in that edition is far less rational than what I've seen in 5e. So please don't pretend that you are the only person who understands the intent behind the design of 5e. Also, I find your suggestion that I put a time limit on inquiries into the rules at my table to be dismissive. If you wish to suppress discussion of the rules in your own games, go right ahead. I will follow no such rule, and I don't see the point of carrying over an impatience with such inquiries into a discussion forum whose sole intent it is to discuss the game.Thanks,Hriston</blockquote>

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