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Poll: As a player, I am always justified in pursuing every advantage I find, no matter what.
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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8717600" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>As stated above: My goal was never to parade around and say "look, everyone agrees with me!" Because that's not only pointless preening, it's <em>doubly</em> pointless because a self-selected online poll where people are allowed to change their votes is a poll with near-zero merit.</p><p></p><p>My whole purpose was to determine <em>how common</em> such sentiments are, among ENWorld folks who visit the D&D subforum. I chose the expression I did because it reflects an actual opinion stated to me recently by a user here, which some others either agreed with, or disagreed with but said that their players agree with. Hence, I was curious exactly how common such opinions are. I cannot conduct a <em>true</em> survey, so the data is merely for my own "amusement," after a fashion. But I was still curious.</p><p></p><p>Should a debate about the merits of exploiting advantages crop up in the thread, all the better, so long as it remains civil.</p><p></p><p>Edit: And yes, I intentionally phrased it so that it could include purely in-character behaviors, purely out-of-game behaviors like social engineering pizza (...that's a phrase I'm going to have to hold onto), or purely mechanical behaviors, whether they be merely curious rule interactions, outright broken rules loopholes, or logical consequences of (house)rules used without concern for side-effects (e.g. disregarding genre conventions.)</p><p></p><p>The only thing I personally would exclude from the above is outright <em>cheating</em>, e.g. falsely reporting the results of your rolls or "misremembering" how much gold you have etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8717600, member: 6790260"] As stated above: My goal was never to parade around and say "look, everyone agrees with me!" Because that's not only pointless preening, it's [I]doubly[/I] pointless because a self-selected online poll where people are allowed to change their votes is a poll with near-zero merit. My whole purpose was to determine [I]how common[/I] such sentiments are, among ENWorld folks who visit the D&D subforum. I chose the expression I did because it reflects an actual opinion stated to me recently by a user here, which some others either agreed with, or disagreed with but said that their players agree with. Hence, I was curious exactly how common such opinions are. I cannot conduct a [I]true[/I] survey, so the data is merely for my own "amusement," after a fashion. But I was still curious. Should a debate about the merits of exploiting advantages crop up in the thread, all the better, so long as it remains civil. Edit: And yes, I intentionally phrased it so that it could include purely in-character behaviors, purely out-of-game behaviors like social engineering pizza (...that's a phrase I'm going to have to hold onto), or purely mechanical behaviors, whether they be merely curious rule interactions, outright broken rules loopholes, or logical consequences of (house)rules used without concern for side-effects (e.g. disregarding genre conventions.) The only thing I personally would exclude from the above is outright [I]cheating[/I], e.g. falsely reporting the results of your rolls or "misremembering" how much gold you have etc. [/QUOTE]
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