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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6397613" data-attributes="member: 15700">Really?Sorry, no spinning there.  That's what you directly said.That one sentence said that the rate of cheating has stayed the same over the past 50 years.  That one sentence throws your entire position out of the window.  It was funny because it was an article that you linked to support your claim.  I can only guess you didn't even bother to read your own sources.  Which is not shocking, because here you are again, making some pretty outrageous claims about something that clearly have on idea about (being ordered to go into a dangerous situation).I didn't say you said they weren't brave.  Again, there is no spin here.  I said one of the reasons they did so was because they were brave.  That's an important factor to explain why people do things that you hadn't considered.  Instead you seemed to imply that people who were intelligent wouldn't do such acts of heroism because of risk assessment.  To which I called bogus on because I've personally seen many people who were very intelligent do such things.  Your entire argument seems to be boiling down to that PCs shouldn't fight Cyan because they aren't stupid, which completely ignores the many times people do do things because they are brave, were ordered to, etc.  I gotta tell you, my son is a firefighter.  If the wasn't willing to risk his life to save someone else, he wouldn't be a firefighter.  That comes with the job.  Just like in the military, when I had a mission to do, I did it, regardless of risk or danger.  I was a blackhawk helicopter crewchief.  If my pilot said, "Sorry, we aren't going into that medivac mission because the odds are we'll get shot down.", there would be a few less soldiers alive today.  And PCs are heroes, right?  At least the good aligned ones?  Same thing with the LG thing.  If a LG character is willing to break his or her word whenever it's convenient and the LE person isn't?  That should tell you that maybe you need to reassess what lawful good means.  Especially with the definition of "lawful".If you want "D&D Easy Hand-held Mode", more power to you.  But don't start complaining how horrible a scenario is because it forces you actually make decisions on whether or not you should go into combat rather than just assume every combat you would ever face is beatable.</blockquote>

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