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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9459535" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Again, I do not have beef. You seemed ready to accuse me of dehumanizing my players, I am merely pointing out that the language choice was not mine, and is often at the root of these discussions. And I find your phrasing of &quot;a common language&quot; to be a bit odd. The only way I could parse that into the discussion would be with the idea of jargon, because presumably you are still speaking the same language even if you are approaching a description differently. I think of it in terms of POV as an example. You wouldn't say &quot;we are speaking different languages&quot; if a player engaged by describing their character in the third person, compared to a player who used first person to describe their character's actions. In fact, in that sort of scenario... would you insist that a player change from one to the other to fit your preference? Would you even bring it up?That sounds like a completely different situation to me. A player insisting that you have described the game world incorrectly because the mechanics are inviolable has essentially no similarities with a DM telling a player to describe their actions differently. OR if it does, you as the DM would be taking the place of that player in this example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9459535, member: 6801228"] Again, I do not have beef. You seemed ready to accuse me of dehumanizing my players, I am merely pointing out that the language choice was not mine, and is often at the root of these discussions. And I find your phrasing of "a common language" to be a bit odd. The only way I could parse that into the discussion would be with the idea of jargon, because presumably you are still speaking the same language even if you are approaching a description differently. I think of it in terms of POV as an example. You wouldn't say "we are speaking different languages" if a player engaged by describing their character in the third person, compared to a player who used first person to describe their character's actions. In fact, in that sort of scenario... would you insist that a player change from one to the other to fit your preference? Would you even bring it up? That sounds like a completely different situation to me. A player insisting that you have described the game world incorrectly because the mechanics are inviolable has essentially no similarities with a DM telling a player to describe their actions differently. OR if it does, you as the DM would be taking the place of that player in this example. [/QUOTE]

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