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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 1541546" data-attributes="member: 537">Eh, there are some people around who need to take out insurance on their tinfoil hats. Don't let them faze you.Putting advice along the lines of "you can ignore anything you don't like" in a rulebook is pointless. First, the smart gamers will know this anyway, so it's wasted on them. Second, the dumb gamers will use this to shoot themselves in the foot by thinking up inane and unbalanced house rules, or discarding rules on a whim, so it's dangerous for them. Third, contrary to what certain tinfoil-hat wearers might believe, people don't exist in a vacuum, and will eventually pick up on this, from the tinfoil-hat wearers themselves if nobody else.You have to distinguish between wars on forae like the Rules board, and issues that arise in actual gameplay. Wars on the Rules board are quasi-philosophical in nature, like arguing over how many angels can fit on a 5' square pinhead: most have absolutely nothing to do with how the game is played in the real world. Similarly, just because wars on the Rules board can go for weeks is not an indication that the same happens around the table. You'll get obsessive types who actually will drag out an argument for weeks in real life, but that happens regardless.</blockquote>