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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5724768" data-attributes="member: 58197">Whoo. This thread is a big ol' stack of barrels full of napalm and dynamite, with a lot of dangling live wires overhead spitting sparks.(That is to say: &quot;Atlas Shrugged,&quot; and Ayn Rand's work in general, is a hugely contentious topic, and intensely political, and has been cited as inspiration by some fairly big names in American politics. Not your fault, but pretty much any discussion involving Rand is a flame war waiting to happen.)Having read AS, I'm really not clear on how it's relevant in your situation. &quot;Atlas&quot; has some prescriptions for how one should live and behave, but as far as I can recall it's silent on the subject of death mechanics in RPGs. I think the player was just being a jerk and grabbing for whatever in his mind carried the Weight of Authority, to claim it as justification for his position.My suggestion: Tell him this is the game you're willing to run. If he doesn't want to play, that's his choice, but this is yours. And if he starts talking about &quot;Atlas&quot; again, tell him you haven't read it and you're not going to plow through a thousand-page tome just because he's not capable of putting together a coherent argument on his own. (Okay, maybe that last bit should be phrased a little more diplomatically... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5724768, member: 58197"] Whoo. This thread is a big ol' stack of barrels full of napalm and dynamite, with a lot of dangling live wires overhead spitting sparks. (That is to say: "Atlas Shrugged," and Ayn Rand's work in general, is a hugely contentious topic, and intensely political, and has been cited as inspiration by some fairly big names in American politics. Not your fault, but pretty much any discussion involving Rand is a flame war waiting to happen.) Having read AS, I'm really not clear on how it's relevant in your situation. "Atlas" has some prescriptions for how one should live and behave, but as far as I can recall it's silent on the subject of death mechanics in RPGs. I think the player was just being a jerk and grabbing for whatever in his mind carried the Weight of Authority, to claim it as justification for his position. My suggestion: Tell him this is the game you're willing to run. If he doesn't want to play, that's his choice, but this is yours. And if he starts talking about "Atlas" again, tell him you haven't read it and you're not going to plow through a thousand-page tome just because he's not capable of putting together a coherent argument on his own. (Okay, maybe that last bit should be phrased a little more diplomatically... ;) ) [/QUOTE]

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