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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9540670" data-attributes="member: 6790260">While 100% may not be possible, that's not the same as saying that one should definitely settle for only 50%; it simply means that there will be some "willing suspension of disbelief", to use what I hope is an acceptable phrase.But it does mean that a maximalist attitude toward verisimilitude, especially if that maximalism makes demands that affect the game design that applies to everyone, must make a case for why it should be that we should pursue 99.9999% as opposed to 90% or 99% or 99.9% or whatever. And that, [USER=6747251]@Micah Sweet[/USER] , is where the argument in your most recent post breaks down. You are not exclusively advocating for being allowed to play your way while others play theirs, with no cost to anyone; you have many times places very strong demands on what the system itself must do or not do inherently, under all circumstances, which is a restriction on what others can do, experience, achieve, etc.Again, this does not and cannot mean that you should just accept whatever pittance of verisimilitude you can get. That would be incredibly insulting to you. You very much should advocate for your interests! But in that advocacy, if you're going to expect others to be mindful of the cost to your fun because of their requests (or demands, or whatever else), then the same applies in the other direction. There may be some few things—I sincerely hope it is very few—where you may be asked accept that the massive cost to them for adding/removing something is more harmful than a minor cost to you for not doing so.And, to be clear, I understand that I have made some strong demands here for cases when I'm a player. I have never had an issue with most of these apart from character deaths (e.g. CvC/PvP is quite rare at most tables today for a reason), but that doesn't mean they couldn't ever be an issue. I do try to jump in front of any such thing early, but I'm not perfect. That said, these really are at-table issues, not game-design issues, and none of the "fixes" I've mentioned require anything in the rules themselves to implement.</blockquote>

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