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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9129466" data-attributes="member: 7006">I understand what your feeling is on the matter in this regard... but from my perspective what you are looking for is completely arbitrary.Your feeling on what is verisimilitudinous is just that.  A feeling.  X feels like it's a part of the world, Y does not.  But that is entirely based upon your imagination.  How you imagine these things would be represented in this world, were there game rules to represent them.But there's no hard or fast way for anyone to determine what is correct in these rules for your verisimilitude.  It's all just your feelings, your imagination.  So at what point is any random rule in the game not verisimilitudinous because it's not a good rule, or just because you aren't imagining it well enough?I mean... isn't that what the issue is for all those players who say (for instance) that then NEED to have the Elf species give a +2 to DEX, rather than just give the player the choice of the +2 in anything?  They can't imagine the Elf being dexterous enough without seeing that +2  to DEX is the Species write-up?  To me, that's them just not imagining hard enough.  That's their issue, not WotC's.Now if (general) you don't want to have to imagine anything and want everything spelled out for you in-game... I understand that instinct.  I don't agree with it-- and in fact I think it's more lazy in attitude than ANYTHING WotC has ever done that people claim are "lazy choices" in their rule design-- but that's fine, how you choose to play the game is how you play the game.  But I personally do not see any reason for any of us to get in arms that WotC doesn't agree with us on how we play the game and makes choices that run counter to it.  So I don't.  Knowing full-well that WotC will make occasional rules choices that don't work for me, I just don't concern myself with them and play the game how I want with what I have.  And that way, I never have to worry about the choices WotC makes and I'm a heck of a lot happier than it seems a lot of people here are.</blockquote>

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