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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bad Paper" data-source="post: 2527810" data-attributes="member: 24674">a n00b's responseI am relatively new to ENWorld, so I have only recently encountered the staggering number of threads that came before me.I am also quite new to this incarnation of the game.  Before this last year-and-a-half, I hadn't played since the days that TSR was loudly trumpeting the soon-to-be-released 2nd ed rulebooks.Seeing the practical implementations that people post in the discussions is truly helpful.  There are ideas there that I hadn't considered.  The posts (Andargor's type C) help me to determine what is important in gameplay, and what bogs down the game.  I no longer waste my time in the House Rules forum, because that stuff is too...wacky.{Maybe the House Rules forum should be renamed the Wacky House Rules Forum, and then we can have a subforum here called House Rules, but I don't think that's practical, or correct.}While it's true that there are probably too many variant-rules posts, it is also true that when the next version of the game comes out (say it isn't so!) those posts will dwindle severely.  It will be back to the days of, "OMG how are we supposed to play THAT rule?!"After a while you just learn to mentally/visually skip certain posts.  e.g. my eyes seem to automatically skip any post with the words "point buy" or "pb."  It's the same as when you do a Google search.  There's no way every response will be useful; your brain just learns to sift.I think this forum is mostly OK (though there has GOT to be a better way to sort out the too-often-asked questions like what-do-you-mean-an-improved-unarmed-strike-is-not-a-natural-weapon).  The moderators have a nice hands-off style (though they still mod, as illustrated by Pielhorino's nuking of my latest thread-turned-flamewar)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> .As for my peeve: oh MAN do I hate the "can someone post starting gold for a 3rd level character" threads!  On the positive side, those of us with Search can easily find the answer to that question for just about every level at this point.</blockquote>

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