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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6133568" data-attributes="member: 2067">No one's forcing the flavor, though.Even if we assume the strawberry's ubiquity, no one ever has to eat it. After all, what you put in your mouth is up to you. When you look at that menu, and see strawberry, you don't have to order it. There's no Gaming Police. No one's going to come to Hussar's home and ensure that he is only playing with regulation lore in a regulation manner with regulation lore. No one can make him play Planescape. <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?332378-All-Lemonade-Is-Local" target="_blank">Every table is its own unique game, every group defines what it is going to use and not use for itself</a>. If Hussar doesn't care about Planescape, no one can ever tell him that he has to play with any of it. Even if all WotC did was re-publish 2e Planescape forever, and condemn all non-Planescape materials as heresy, no one could make Hussar play a game with any PS in it whatsoever.Because each game is local, what actually sees play at the table is self-selected. You get to order anything you want from the menu, or even make your own dish.And while PS is certainly a popular flavor here, apparently, it's still just one flavor amongst many. You don't have to order it or eat it.So in complaining about it's ubiquity, he appears to be complaining about the mere fact that it is even on the menu. Or even that there's a lot of variations on it.To twist the metaphor a bit, it sounds a little like he's standing in a candy shop and complaining about all the chocolates there, and saying there should be fewer chocolates. Chocolates are good. Chocolates are popular. Chocolate makes its way into a lot of things. But if you don't like chocolate, and no one can MAKE you eat chocolate, and you're not planning on getting anything with chocolate in it anyway, it seems inordinately mean-spirited to complain that there's too much chocolate in the shop, or even to decide you don't want the shop to sell ANY chocolate, unless someone special orders it. It sound a lot like "Other peoples' love of Planescape is not as important as my dislike of Planescape! I don't want any, and I don't want to ever be offered any!" You don't have to eat any of it, there's plenty of non-chocolate options, and it's a shop where you can make your own candy anyway, but because you don't like it, it needs to be banished to the back room? And anyone who happens to like chocolate is just an unthinking traditionalist?Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a dentist's appointment.</blockquote>

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