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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9257786" data-attributes="member: 6671663">To be charitable to Gygax and crew in a way I’m usually not, I find it very easy to believe that they had clear boundaries in mind when it comes to which population PCs are meant to represent. I mean, I have myself had the experience of feeling that something was clear and straightforward in my mind, then tried writing it down and discovered it was both too vague and too tangled to be any use after all.(This does happen to others, right?)When you’re busy on a zillion fronts, a lot of assumptions have to go unexamined. There’s just no time to wrestle with any one topic very long, so you lay down some generalizations and move on. Quite likely you make a mental note to revise it in some supplement or corrected printing or something, a day which may or may not ever come.It was like that time and again in my RPG writing days, and we had vastly superior circumstances than those guys, in a lot of way. Throw in things like Gygaxian circumlocution, and you’re planting a rich crop of malice-free but nonetheless tenacious problems big and small alike.</blockquote>