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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8507222" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Perhaps yours don't. My game's Bard laps this stuff up like nectar, and the Druid is keen on learning everything he can about other lands so he can teach the next generation.I do feel awkward launching into spiels at times but the players have repeatedly thanked me for them so I can only assume it's what they want. I try to spice it up or space it out though. More &quot;seven two-minute spiels&quot; than &quot;one ten-minute TED talk&quot; if I can pull it off.Unless and until you can do statistics with it, it's literally no different from feelings as far as &quot;data,&quot; the word referring to analyzable collections of information, is concerned. Also? You don't get to turn &quot;the experiences I, Lyxen, have had&quot; into seven data points just because you've had seven of them or whatever. They're all one data point, because they all have a major, result-affecting element in common: That you yourself had the experience.Otherwise, we'd have to accept that a single person who claimed to have been visited by aliens a thousand times was a reliable data set with tons of analyzable information, which (I sincerely hope) you agree is not sound practice when it comes to data collection.Don't be so melodramatic. Is it really that hard to say, &quot;hey, let's have a fantasy Athens, I can lean on Theros for that and do a little research on Greek food, art, and history&quot;? You come across as more than a bit petulant here. &quot;Well FINE if the stuff I like is wrong, BURN IT ALL DOWN.&quot;It really doesn't need such doomsaying and hand-wringing, and resorting to melodrama does not actually accomplish anything. Like...do you genuinely think that this response will make AcererakTriple6 open up to your position? That you'll actually persuade anyone at all by speaking this way, rather than just earning brownie points with people who already agree with you?Oh come off it. Really, Max? &quot;We should do things more thoughtfully&quot; is a slippery slope now? Next you'll be saying that &quot;we should teach children statistics so they can't be as easily deceived by misleading charts and numbers&quot; is a slippery slope to turning everyone into soulless robots.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8507222, member: 6790260"] Perhaps yours don't. My game's Bard laps this stuff up like nectar, and the Druid is keen on learning everything he can about other lands so he can teach the next generation. I do feel awkward launching into spiels at times but the players have repeatedly thanked me for them so I can only assume it's what they want. I try to spice it up or space it out though. More "seven two-minute spiels" than "one ten-minute TED talk" if I can pull it off. Unless and until you can do statistics with it, it's literally no different from feelings as far as "data," the word referring to analyzable collections of information, is concerned. Also? You don't get to turn "the experiences I, Lyxen, have had" into seven data points just because you've had seven of them or whatever. They're all one data point, because they all have a major, result-affecting element in common: [I]That you yourself had the experience.[/I] Otherwise, we'd have to accept that a single person who claimed to have been visited by aliens a thousand times was a reliable data set with tons of analyzable information, which (I sincerely hope) you agree is not sound practice when it comes to data collection. Don't be so melodramatic. Is it really that hard to say, "hey, let's have a fantasy Athens, I can lean on Theros for that and do a little research on Greek food, art, and history"? You come across as more than a bit petulant here. "Well FINE if the stuff I like is [I]wrong,[/I] BURN IT ALL DOWN." It really doesn't need such doomsaying and hand-wringing, and resorting to melodrama does not actually accomplish anything. Like...do you genuinely think that this response will make AcererakTriple6 open up to your position? That you'll actually persuade anyone at all by speaking this way, rather than just earning brownie points with people who already agree with you? Oh come off it. Really, Max? "We should do things more thoughtfully" is a slippery slope now? Next you'll be saying that "we should teach children statistics so they can't be as easily deceived by misleading charts and numbers" is a slippery slope to turning everyone into soulless robots. [/QUOTE]

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