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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5754583" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't undestand the contrast between reasonableness and wants. Reasonableness, presumably, is a property that some wants possess but others lack.I also don't entirely understand reasonableness as a constraint. One of my players likes to play PCs who, from the point of view of the rest of the group, are almost unreasonable in their underpoweredness and mechanical idiosyncracy, but who are we to dictate how he builds his PCs? (Provided that he sticks to the rules.)Finally, I'm curious what evidence there is that the majority of groups invest the GM with the sort of power you are positing. I don't think I've never come across such a group, although admittedly my experience is limited to one state in Australia. Perhaps the one GM against whom I led a coup thought that this was how things worked, but (i) the game didn't last long enough to really explore the issue, and (ii) when you are booted by the group and don't have a game anymore, who is on the highway?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5754583, member: 42582"] I don't undestand the contrast between reasonableness and wants. Reasonableness, presumably, is a property that some wants possess but others lack. I also don't entirely understand reasonableness as a constraint. One of my players likes to play PCs who, from the point of view of the rest of the group, are almost unreasonable in their underpoweredness and mechanical idiosyncracy, but who are we to dictate how he builds his PCs? (Provided that he sticks to the rules.) Finally, I'm curious what evidence there is that the majority of groups invest the GM with the sort of power you are positing. I don't think I've never come across such a group, although admittedly my experience is limited to one state in Australia. Perhaps the one GM against whom I led a coup thought that this was how things worked, but (i) the game didn't last long enough to really explore the issue, and (ii) when you are booted by the group and don't have a game anymore, who is on the highway? [/QUOTE]

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