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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5412651" data-attributes="member: 4937">Not at all.  I did not suggest or imply anything of the sort.I suggested that you had excellent congruence between your desires and those of your players, and I implied that those desires had probably shaped each other.What I was suggesting that the experience of gaming a group of players for over 10 years in no way prepares you for the range of player expectations that exist.  What I was suggesting is that you were infering from you particular experiences gaming a particular group general assertions about roleplaying as a whole that while they may hold true for your particular group, don't in fact hold true for all of roleplaying.I certainly agree that for your players when they introduce a character with a fear of snakes, they probably expect you to have them face snakes.  It doesn't however follow that this is true of players generally.   In fact, I'd say that of the dozen or so groups I've played with, that your particular set of techniques is likely (though not certainly) fairly rare.  Some games of course specifically encourage it, but even those games are I think fairly rare in the ecology of RPGs.</blockquote>