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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 9456271" data-attributes="member: 67338">short hand is an incomplete understood way of expressing something...if I write Example, or put Ex: then write out an example you can infer what Ex: meant in context... Ex could also be experience points and if I put Ex 2,400 you can infer that too... however it would be odd for you to ask why I have an experience point before my example or why my example is 2,400 when you want to know what the experience points are (Just not I always abbreviate it as Xp)so do you we just have different levels of when we care.nothing is 100% in fact I even said MORE of my misunderstandings come when people give long drawn out &quot;I am doing X in Y way&quot; cause I have many times have to ask &quot;Why? what are you trying to accomplish&quot; The best example Ex: I have is from a few weeks ago in my rifts campaign (so not D&amp;D but still d20 rolls for combat) a player told me they were going to search a directory and do something (sorry not a computer guy and I don't remember exact words) and then enter something (again computer terms)... I had to ask what he was trying to accompish... he wanted to know how many files there are. If he had said &quot;Can I use my computer skill to find how many files there are&quot; I would have just given him a number, but he went into WAY too much detail... now since the dates on the files where what was inmportant if he just said &quot;computer?&quot; and rolled I would have told him &quot;the files go from the date of the inceadent for about 6ish years&quot;What ACTUALLY happened instead is his long explanation of stuff i didn't understand... to get a number of files, to then ask if he could extrapolate if the files are being done once a day or every other day how long this went on...So we could have saved time if he told me he just wanted the end result he wanted...and here it is &quot;You are playing there character for them&quot; is BS, and I am sick of it... I am no more playing there character then you are. and then can use any way they want to communicate with me there desire as long as I know what they want in context...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 9456271, member: 67338"] short hand is an incomplete understood way of expressing something... if I write Example, or put Ex: then write out an example you can infer what Ex: meant in context... Ex could also be experience points and if I put Ex 2,400 you can infer that too... however it would be odd for you to ask why I have an experience point before my example or why my example is 2,400 when you want to know what the experience points are (Just not I always abbreviate it as Xp) so do you we just have different levels of when we care. nothing is 100% in fact I even said MORE of my misunderstandings come when people give long drawn out "I am doing X in Y way" cause I have many times have to ask "Why? what are you trying to accomplish" The best example Ex: I have is from a few weeks ago in my rifts campaign (so not D&D but still d20 rolls for combat) a player told me they were going to search a directory and do something (sorry not a computer guy and I don't remember exact words) and then enter something (again computer terms)... I had to ask what he was trying to accompish... he wanted to know how many files there are. If he had said "Can I use my computer skill to find how many files there are" I would have just given him a number, but he went into WAY too much detail... now since the dates on the files where what was inmportant if he just said "computer?" and rolled I would have told him "the files go from the date of the inceadent for about 6ish years" What ACTUALLY happened instead is his long explanation of stuff i didn't understand... to get a number of files, to then ask if he could extrapolate if the files are being done once a day or every other day how long this went on... So we could have saved time if he told me he just wanted the end result he wanted... and here it is "You are playing there character for them" is BS, and I am sick of it... I am no more playing there character then you are. and then can use any way they want to communicate with me there desire as long as I know what they want in context... [/QUOTE]

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