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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 3022604" data-attributes="member: 15538"><p>You're completely wrong. What I'm talking about is adventurers, not lemmings with spiked chains. The whole point of roleplaying is to potrary a hero, who is a kind of character, who hopefully inhabits a world that exhibits some logic. To put it succinctly, a little common sense goes a long way.</p><p></p><p>The person who would eat the eggs benefict without elaborate testing is probably a metagamer, who probably figures the GM would not turn him into a hezrou when he eats the demonic eggs benedict, or that the eggs benedict are a ghostly illusion that causes wraiths to attack, or its a psychic projection created by a relatively unintelligent and unimaginive magical beast that uses such illusions to lure prey.</p><p></p><p>We're talking about a dashing hero who thinks <em>someone within the last few hours left a plate of eggs benedict for him in case he got hungry.</em> Or suppose he thinks it is a benign or even helpful dish; whose eggs does he suppose they are, and how will they feel about him eating them?</p><p></p><p>It's true, the eggs are obviously significant, or they wouldn't be in such a strange place. But "signifcant" does not mean good. Statues of adventurers frozen in terror, rendered in incredible detail, is not a sign that you should investigate and see about selling some of them off for loot. It means something has a petrification ability.</p><p></p><p>That sword sticking out of that skull in the altar room of the evil temple? There's probably a reason no one has strolled along and plucked it from its resting place in all these years. If it's easy to acquire, you probably don't want it.</p><p></p><p>This isn't about searching 5' by 5' squares, this is about not acting like a total yahoo when you go into a dangerous situation. It's no different than if you were playing Vampire, and a mysterious wolf started following you, and you offered it some food and tried to take it home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 3022604, member: 15538"] You're completely wrong. What I'm talking about is adventurers, not lemmings with spiked chains. The whole point of roleplaying is to potrary a hero, who is a kind of character, who hopefully inhabits a world that exhibits some logic. To put it succinctly, a little common sense goes a long way. The person who would eat the eggs benefict without elaborate testing is probably a metagamer, who probably figures the GM would not turn him into a hezrou when he eats the demonic eggs benedict, or that the eggs benedict are a ghostly illusion that causes wraiths to attack, or its a psychic projection created by a relatively unintelligent and unimaginive magical beast that uses such illusions to lure prey. We're talking about a dashing hero who thinks [i]someone within the last few hours left a plate of eggs benedict for him in case he got hungry.[/i] Or suppose he thinks it is a benign or even helpful dish; whose eggs does he suppose they are, and how will they feel about him eating them? It's true, the eggs are obviously significant, or they wouldn't be in such a strange place. But "signifcant" does not mean good. Statues of adventurers frozen in terror, rendered in incredible detail, is not a sign that you should investigate and see about selling some of them off for loot. It means something has a petrification ability. That sword sticking out of that skull in the altar room of the evil temple? There's probably a reason no one has strolled along and plucked it from its resting place in all these years. If it's easy to acquire, you probably don't want it. This isn't about searching 5' by 5' squares, this is about not acting like a total yahoo when you go into a dangerous situation. It's no different than if you were playing Vampire, and a mysterious wolf started following you, and you offered it some food and tried to take it home. [/QUOTE]
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