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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1578164" data-attributes="member: 812">Well, I wasn't accusing you of being a frothing fanboy. The reality is, however, that you have an expectation of what's important and critical to any particular setting. Your ideas are unlikely to align with precision with the ideas of the people updating the setting. What seems obvious and necessary to you may not seem that way to others.Using language like, &quot;Do it right,&quot; is just attaching a moral superiority to your own opinion. By &quot;do it right,&quot; you do indeed mean &quot;do it my way&quot; -- and there's nothing wrong with that. But that's what it means -- unless you've got some objective standard of rightness that everyone must be compelled to agree with in your back pocket.Which I suspect you don't.I mean, look at the line I've quoted. Look at the language it uses: &quot;reasonable expectations&quot;, &quot;minor&quot;, &quot;necessary&quot; -- those are all subjective terms that you've defined for yourself -- but how would anyone else know what you consider reasonable, minor or necessary? What makes your definition of &quot;reasonable&quot; the right one?I'm not trying to be cynical (then again, does anyone?) -- I'm trying to make clear that your claim to &quot;rightness&quot; has no basis.What MIGHT have basis is the suggestion that your ideas on what's important in Planescape or whatever setting are GOOD ideas that will lead to fun, playable gamey goodness. But that can only be determined if we look at the ideas themselves -- not if we accept the use of terms like &quot;reasonable&quot; -- which could mean just about anything to anyone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1578164, member: 812"] Well, I wasn't accusing you of being a frothing fanboy. The reality is, however, that you have an expectation of what's important and critical to any particular setting. Your ideas are unlikely to align with precision with the ideas of the people updating the setting. What seems obvious and necessary to you may not seem that way to others. Using language like, "Do it right," is just attaching a moral superiority to your own opinion. By "do it right," you do indeed mean "do it my way" -- and there's nothing wrong with that. But that's what it means -- unless you've got some objective standard of rightness that everyone must be compelled to agree with in your back pocket. Which I suspect you don't. I mean, look at the line I've quoted. Look at the language it uses: "reasonable expectations", "minor", "necessary" -- those are all subjective terms that you've defined for yourself -- but how would anyone else know what you consider reasonable, minor or necessary? What makes your definition of "reasonable" the right one? I'm not trying to be cynical (then again, does anyone?) -- I'm trying to make clear that your claim to "rightness" has no basis. What MIGHT have basis is the suggestion that your ideas on what's important in [i]Planescape[/i] or whatever setting are GOOD ideas that will lead to fun, playable gamey goodness. But that can only be determined if we look at the ideas themselves -- not if we accept the use of terms like "reasonable" -- which could mean just about anything to anyone. [/QUOTE]

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