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<blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 7543768" data-attributes="member: 6976536"><p>If a player decides that he's the only one who gets to have a certain ability, and gets upset that other players are 'stepping on your toes' if they take similar abilities, then they are in practice trying to make a rule for the table. They generally won't come out and say that they want to make it a rule, but that's what they're actually trying to do.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, and I'm saying that if a person, especially one who doesn't even understand the game, is the kind of person that decides that if their character does something they now 'own' the concept and anyone who does something similar is 'stealing' from them, then they're the kind of person I don't want to play with. If the only way you can have fun is by restricting the choices of other players for their characters, you're not the kind of person I want to try to play with.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, I want to avoid playing with them because they are arrogant and entitled enough to decide that they own basic game concepts (before they even understand the game!), think that they get to decide what other players are allowed to do with their characters, and base their fun off of limiting what other people's characters can do. The kind of person who is playing a warlock, sees that someone else has some warlock spells, and decides that they're now a victim of theft is just not going to be pleasant to play with, and down the road is going to become like the example someone else gave where no one but That Guy gets to play a wizard because he'll make their experience unpleasant if they 'step on his toes'. This is all about a person's attitude towards other players, it has nothing to do with knowing the game system, and in reality is NOT the kind of thing that brand new people do, but they kind of thing that people with some system knowledge and a bad attitude do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dessert Nomad, post: 7543768, member: 6976536"] If a player decides that he's the only one who gets to have a certain ability, and gets upset that other players are 'stepping on your toes' if they take similar abilities, then they are in practice trying to make a rule for the table. They generally won't come out and say that they want to make it a rule, but that's what they're actually trying to do. Yes, and I'm saying that if a person, especially one who doesn't even understand the game, is the kind of person that decides that if their character does something they now 'own' the concept and anyone who does something similar is 'stealing' from them, then they're the kind of person I don't want to play with. If the only way you can have fun is by restricting the choices of other players for their characters, you're not the kind of person I want to try to play with. No, I want to avoid playing with them because they are arrogant and entitled enough to decide that they own basic game concepts (before they even understand the game!), think that they get to decide what other players are allowed to do with their characters, and base their fun off of limiting what other people's characters can do. The kind of person who is playing a warlock, sees that someone else has some warlock spells, and decides that they're now a victim of theft is just not going to be pleasant to play with, and down the road is going to become like the example someone else gave where no one but That Guy gets to play a wizard because he'll make their experience unpleasant if they 'step on his toes'. This is all about a person's attitude towards other players, it has nothing to do with knowing the game system, and in reality is NOT the kind of thing that brand new people do, but they kind of thing that people with some system knowledge and a bad attitude do. [/QUOTE]
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