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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8043988" data-attributes="member: 6855114">You assumed a lot. Never did I say that I had made a study or recorded the impression of hundreds of people during those years. It was pretty obvious for just about anyone that I am, just as every body around here, speaking from experience. IF I or anyone else here ever do such a study (or any other), I and they will mention it. Otherwise, all opinions here are personal. That should be obvious. Stating that I should cover all assumptions by choosing words carefully is again nitpicking. You are worth a lot more than that.And what improbable did I claim? That I introduced over 200 players into the hobby over the years. That I made presentations to parents comitee, schoolboards and others. I also organized (and still do at times now) demonstrations of D&D with our D&D friday nights at our hobby store. Is that an improbable claim? Are you accusing me of lying?And I the same. See? Even you can assertain this.Well, I did because I had to break a lot of misconceptions and a lot of fear from parents, religious people and even schoolboards. (The satanic panic was quite something in my area).Exactly. The more a person is familiar with fantasy in general, the more he'll have expectations. Never heard of someone thinking that gnome should be 6' tall, but there are a lot of misconceptions out there, I'll give you that. Lucky it did not get in your way. It surely got into mine as the books were banned from the book and hobby store during the satanic panic in my area.From complete newbee, sure. You won't get much assumption. But again, the more a person is versed in the fantasy genre, the more he will have expectations. I have seen new players seeing a troll for the first time saying: "Aren't they supposed to be 6 inches tall with straight up hair as the small figurines?" Seeing an almost 10 feet tall Troll was a shock. Just as a friend that was well versed in the Lord of the ring refused to see an elf shorter than 6 feet. He was absolutely angry that elves in Greyhawk had been diminished and that they only lived 2000 years... There are all kinds of people out there with different expectations. Each will react differently. Some will accept deviation from their expectations, others will not.Good. ASI are logical. But you think they have undesirable effects while I claim that they perfectly do what they should do. On the other hand, I do think that background/culture should give a bonus to stats too. [USER=6779196]@Charlaquin[/USER] convinced me of that. And I thank her for the idea.</blockquote>

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