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<blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4394618" data-attributes="member: 3087"><p>I agree.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I assume you're saying "also not a problem".</p><p>Metropolis = big starting area. No flexibility. Just saying.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Given aallll this anoyance and aggrivation I'm wondering why people are still locked into repeating it again...</p><p></p><p>Lets be clear. You try to make a map and force everyone to stick to it and it's not going to work. Some of it will be accidental, some of it will be innocent (a player wants to make a new game, so their chracter happens to get halfway accross the contienent in three days).</p><p></p><p>You can write it in bold and tattoo it one someone's arm and they're still going to get it wrong. Most people don't play dnd to sit around counting out inches and calculating travel times. Many good DMs just don't care about those sorts of details. (Homebrewers are a subset that obsesses about this, but if you ask 10 homebrewers how something should work you'll get 13 different suggestions).</p><p></p><p>But nobody's gonna stick to your map. </p><p></p><p>If I were a judge the last thing I'd want my job to be is "you're the guy who makes everybody follow details that don't help the story and that very few people cares about".</p><p></p><p>Ruined cities, failed kingdoms, lost empires. These are details that I think no-one argues with.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As I noted in the talk page <a href="http://www.enworld.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:The_Transitive_Isles#Character_creation_restrictions" target="_blank">I agree with you</a>. (more details there)</p><p></p><p>I think we can put up a poll with more than one choice, though. Even a few that aren't perceived as being good. I don't think the "fixed map" is a great idea, but I'm planning on including the best poll questions about it that I can.</p><p></p><p>The feat tax is a bad idea yes.... but given your feelings here</p><p></p><p></p><p>it seems like you want some system.</p><p></p><p>You have to start with your best idea, and then offer a bunch of alternatives and then see what people want (I think).</p><p></p><p>We're not going to "present a perfect setting and get it approved". You go with what you have. I put the feat part in strikethrough yesterday. Give me a better suggestion and I'll pull it right out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Graf, post: 4394618, member: 3087"] I agree. I assume you're saying "also not a problem". Metropolis = big starting area. No flexibility. Just saying. Given aallll this anoyance and aggrivation I'm wondering why people are still locked into repeating it again... Lets be clear. You try to make a map and force everyone to stick to it and it's not going to work. Some of it will be accidental, some of it will be innocent (a player wants to make a new game, so their chracter happens to get halfway accross the contienent in three days). You can write it in bold and tattoo it one someone's arm and they're still going to get it wrong. Most people don't play dnd to sit around counting out inches and calculating travel times. Many good DMs just don't care about those sorts of details. (Homebrewers are a subset that obsesses about this, but if you ask 10 homebrewers how something should work you'll get 13 different suggestions). But nobody's gonna stick to your map. If I were a judge the last thing I'd want my job to be is "you're the guy who makes everybody follow details that don't help the story and that very few people cares about". Ruined cities, failed kingdoms, lost empires. These are details that I think no-one argues with. As I noted in the talk page [URL="http://www.enworld.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:The_Transitive_Isles#Character_creation_restrictions"]I agree with you[/URL]. (more details there) I think we can put up a poll with more than one choice, though. Even a few that aren't perceived as being good. I don't think the "fixed map" is a great idea, but I'm planning on including the best poll questions about it that I can. The feat tax is a bad idea yes.... but given your feelings here it seems like you want some system. You have to start with your best idea, and then offer a bunch of alternatives and then see what people want (I think). We're not going to "present a perfect setting and get it approved". You go with what you have. I put the feat part in strikethrough yesterday. Give me a better suggestion and I'll pull it right out. [/QUOTE]
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