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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silvercat Moonpaw" data-source="post: 4757086" data-attributes="member: 46652">It may, if learning proper grammar makes you decide you can't stand the slang any more.I'm just working from personal experience: There are some fictional elements I hate putting up with now because I know more about how the world actually works.Then can you be certain that someone who knows nothing about a topic can actually do a poorer job than someone who does know?  If there are no boundaries then you're including "completely ignorant".And would it have been as interesting?  Maybe to you, you seem to like reality elements in your game.  Whereas I like story elements in my game, and sometimes that means you have to be unrealistic.I tried this.  I still do a little while I'm working.  But I increasingly find that it only bogs me down with too many details that I can't pick from, that I don't know which ones I have to have in order to get it all "right".  I do better making things up from what I pick up not researching, I don't feel like I have to wonder so much (and even then if I know too much about something I get stuck again).Never read any of them.  (I've never even heard of them outside the gamer community (except for Tolkein).)  Knowledge of history and myth isn't what impresses me.What impresses me is conventions, clichés, tropes and breaking them and how.  And to do that you don't have to use real information.  You can, if you want to break a non-real cliché, but if you're using real information to prop up a trope than it's no different to me than using non-real information.</blockquote>

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