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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 6724676" data-attributes="member: 5142">No one is going to start that thread because most of us are decent enough people who recognize that our personal opposition to a class or concept does not provide sufficient grounds for hindering something that others may enjoy at their table. Respectfully, that is your main point in the discussion, but not necessarily the main point in this broader discussion. Furthermore, you should not take that sentiment to be a universal. You may not, but sometimes comes across that way in my reading of your posts. Are you telling me that as a player I should feel that my ability to roleplay my character is being hijacked? I get that this is your opinion, and I don't want to invalidate your personal feelings in that regard, but it also feels that you are implying that I should feel upset about how another player's warlord abilities exist in relation to my own character. As someone who has played across from warlords, I never once had any inclination, notion, or knee-jerk emotional reaction to a warlord using their abilities on my character as some sort of roleplaying hijacking orchestrating my relational feelings. So no, I disagree with your assertion that this is &quot;categorically no different from saying...&quot; since that has not been my experience of seeing the warlord in play at all. Is your reading of the class the only right one? Should others be denied from playing a class they enjoyed because of your quibble of fluff that they don't share?Edit: You should not read this with a hostile tone. There is frustration, but a degree of emotional openness that I hope will be helpful in communicating how it feels on my end reading your opposition to these warlord abilities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 6724676, member: 5142"] No one is going to start that thread because most of us are decent enough people who recognize that our personal opposition to a class or concept does not provide sufficient grounds for hindering something that others may enjoy at their table. Respectfully, that is [i]your[/i] main point in the discussion, but not necessarily the main point in this broader discussion. Furthermore, you should not take that sentiment to be a universal. You may not, but sometimes comes across that way in my reading of your posts. Are you telling me that as a player I should feel that my ability to roleplay my character is being hijacked? I get that this is your opinion, and I don't want to invalidate your personal feelings in that regard, but it also feels that you are implying that [i]I should feel[/i] upset about how another player's warlord abilities exist in relation to my own character. As someone who has played across from warlords, I never once had any inclination, notion, or knee-jerk emotional reaction to a warlord using their abilities on my character as some sort of roleplaying hijacking orchestrating my relational feelings. So no, I disagree with your assertion that this is "categorically no different from saying..." since that has not been my experience of seeing the warlord in play at all. Is your reading of the class the only right one? Should others be denied from playing a class they enjoyed because of your quibble of fluff that they don't share? Edit: You should not read this with a hostile tone. There is frustration, but a degree of emotional openness that I hope will be helpful in communicating how it feels on my end reading your opposition to these warlord abilities. [/QUOTE]

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