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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9440387" data-attributes="member: 6801845">These things always seem to come down to &quot;My opinion and preference is..&quot; countered by &quot;I have a different opinion and preference is...&quot; followed by &quot;I'm just trying to explain...&quot;.&nbsp; Which, by the time we get to the last bit everyone knows what the different sides are.&nbsp; It all just comes down to what we happen to like or not like and occasionally reasons why.For example, I don't like the caster deciding how to implement the action because I've had bad experiences as a player.&nbsp; My PC was on a boat, the NPC commanded &quot;jump&quot;* and instead of one of many reasonable options of jump in place, towards the middle of the ship or to the side the DM stated &quot;You know what I mean, jump overboard.&quot;&nbsp; There were several options for my PC to follow the command that didn't have them sink to the bottom of the ocean.If you are going to have the caster decide what the result is, I think it should be a clear and short list.&nbsp; If it's open ended, it should be up to the target to decide how to implement it.&nbsp; In my opinion.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />*I know I keep bringing this same example up, to me it's just a clear example of the abuse of the word.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9440387, member: 6801845"] These things always seem to come down to "My opinion and preference is.." countered by "I have a different opinion and preference is..." followed by "I'm just trying to explain...". Which, by the time we get to the last bit everyone knows what the different sides are. It all just comes down to what we happen to like or not like and occasionally reasons why. For example, I don't like the caster deciding how to implement the action because I've had bad experiences as a player. My PC was on a boat, the NPC commanded "jump"* and instead of one of many reasonable options of jump in place, towards the middle of the ship or to the side the DM stated "You know what I mean, jump overboard." There were several options for my PC to follow the command that didn't have them sink to the bottom of the ocean. If you are going to have the caster decide what the result is, I think it should be a clear and short list. If it's open ended, it should be up to the target to decide how to implement it. In my opinion. :) [I]*I know I keep bringing this same example up, to me it's just a clear example of the abuse of the word.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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