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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6397837" data-attributes="member: 2067">Well, that's just baking bias into your comparison unless you have hard data. One person's typical is another person's atypical. If all the steak I ever ate was charred, chewy, and hard, my typical steak experience would be pretty negative, but I never actually ate steak made by someone who knew how to make a steak...well, you see the trouble there. A good DM fixes all problems, yeah. But more to the point, people who love certain settings love them because they have had really great experiences there. Since that's what we're all trying for, comparing those great experiences gives us useful examples of fun things to do with D&D and how certain settings ennable certain fun things and de-emphasize others. Like, a great PS experience has things that I thinks  [MENTION=16760]The Shadow[/MENTION] wouldn't like (like irreverence in the face of majesty), but might get away without the "petty" things that  [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] wouldn't like (amateur philosophy and annoying slang), so you can see some of the variation of what aesthetic people are looking for when they play the game. They're trying to get a great experienceI mean, as far as published stuff goes, PS doesn't have a whole lot of metaplot (in comparison to other settings of the 2e era), but open war broke out in the City of Doors, the Factions were expelled, a Demon Lord was raised from the dead, and entire planar layers were shifted. That's hardly static!Another interesting thing I heard about recently: <a href="http://youarenotsosmart.com/2014/09/30/yanss-podcast-033-the-psychology-of-forming-keeping-and-sometimes-changing-our-beliefs/" target="_blank">beliefs are made to justify our emotions</a>.It's been a fun week! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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