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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1870838" data-attributes="member: 177">Being aware has nothing to do with it.The entire history of the game is dependant and devoted to playing the game in ways other than the rules as written.  AD&D1e would not exist if people didn't deviate from playing Basic D&D.  3e would not exist if folks didn't deviate from what the 2e books said.  3.5e would not exist if people didn't have problems with what was in the books.  White Wolf would not exist if gamers stuck to what D&D did.  Etc. Look at the list of different foums on this site - yes, there is a D&D rules forum.  But there's also a house rules forum,which is about playing other than in the way mentioned in the core rules.  There's the d20/OGL forum, again about playing the game other than in the way the D&D rulebooks are written.  The General forum, too, depends upon the existance of other ways to play.  This very discussion is based on the idea that gamers already have relaized that there's more than one type of game you can play by the core rules.  People are questioning the way the books say to play the game all the bloody time!  Constantly.  Insessantly.You keep saying you have this fear - buy you have produced no evidence that it has ground in which to root.  The history of the game up to this very day almost literally screams at you that gamers do not, in general, stick to what the rulebooks say.  They play in the way that they have fun.Stop blaming subtle book-induced hypnosis for what is simply the way some folks like to play.Manipulation of the sort you suggest does not function when the intended victim has lots of time to think and full information at their disposal.  The full information is right there in the rulebooks.  Time we have aplenty.  There is no reason to believe that gamers are somehow manipulated into behaving in one way and only one way and never should they deviate.</blockquote>

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