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<blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4154046" data-attributes="member: 1879">If you encounter someone who thinks that by wiggling his fingers he can shoot balls of fire from his hands, you have in fact met a crazy person. His perceptions, have little to do with reality as you and I and the car he thinks he just blew up experience it.Conversely if my PC encouters a group of NPCs with a problem and says &quot;Well why don't you just do blah, that always works for me.&quot; only to have the NPCs say &quot;Yeah but that only works for you, we couldn't do that even if Smaug and Santa Claus got out and pushed.&quot; then my character is going to start to have serious doubts about his own sanity. Did he actually slay the dragon of blackrock or is he giggling to himself in a straightjacket somewhere? Am I playing this character, or merely describing his hallucinations?Do you see? If PC and NPCs visibly operate under different rules, it produces a cognitive dissonance that shatters my suspension of disbelief and reduces my enjoyment in the game.&nbsp; :\</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andor, post: 4154046, member: 1879"] If you encounter someone who thinks that by wiggling his fingers he can shoot balls of fire from his hands, you have in fact met a crazy person. His perceptions, have little to do with reality as you and I and the car he thinks he just blew up experience it. Conversely if my PC encouters a group of NPCs with a problem and says "Well why don't you just do [i]blah[/i], that always works for me." only to have the NPCs say "Yeah but that only works for you, we couldn't do that even if Smaug and Santa Claus got out and pushed." then my character is going to start to have serious doubts about his own sanity. Did he actually slay the dragon of blackrock or is he giggling to himself in a straightjacket somewhere? Am I playing this character, or merely describing his hallucinations? Do you see? If PC and NPCs visibly operate under different rules, it produces a cognitive dissonance that shatters my suspension of disbelief and reduces my enjoyment in the game. :\ [/QUOTE]

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