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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5131974" data-attributes="member: 18280">I used to think that this was the case, now I am not so sure.I begin to think that this is actually a function of "reader bias", and would not occur (or at least not to the same degree) if the same people were having a conversation in a pub.  And, I think the descent into minutia is based, to a large degree, on that misinterpretation.....A roundabout attempt to clarify that is misinterpreted as bad faith by both sides, on the part of the other side.Take, for example, the OP in this thread.  Hobo suggested that the sandbox endpoint was probably unobtainable and undesireable.  If one reads that to mean a campaign world in which the DM has prepped everything, and knows everything, so that the PCs can do anything without catching the DM unprepared, then he is right.  That is neither possible nor (IMHO at least) desireable.If one reads this as a sandbox (i.e., the game that you are playing) is both impossible and undesireable, then not only is one likely to take offense, but it would seem that Hobo was calling you a liar.Hence the desire to talk about real games, as opposed to hypothetical endpoints.We are, perhaps, all of us a little too quick to take offense, and a little less charitable in our reading of others' posts than we should be.RC</blockquote>