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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9040094" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>That's simply impossible. I mean, literally impossible. Whatever you grasped is flat out wrong. If I am basing my decisions on reason, that is mutually exclusive to basing it on a whim(arbitrary). Whatever it is that you grasped cannot alter reality and make me wrong about this.</p><p></p><p>I suppose you might use the definition of arbitrary that means that I am acting as a judge and being an arbiter, but the context of use here is not that. People here use it to mean whim in order to put down the style that they dislike, so I push back against that inaccurate depiction of what it is that I do.</p><p></p><p>False. That's not only what it is based on. </p><p></p><p>Even if it was, though, as long as it is all based on reason, arbitrary never comes into play. Even going back to the construction of the original campaign(if the DM created it), the design of the campaign is based on reason. What's more, even if the original world was created completely on a whim, further decisions that use that whim as the foundation for the decision are in fact not arbitrary. I would have a reason for the decision that I just made. What happened originally doesn't alter the fact that I would be using reason for the decision.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 9040094, member: 23751"] That's simply impossible. I mean, literally impossible. Whatever you grasped is flat out wrong. If I am basing my decisions on reason, that is mutually exclusive to basing it on a whim(arbitrary). Whatever it is that you grasped cannot alter reality and make me wrong about this. I suppose you might use the definition of arbitrary that means that I am acting as a judge and being an arbiter, but the context of use here is not that. People here use it to mean whim in order to put down the style that they dislike, so I push back against that inaccurate depiction of what it is that I do. False. That's not only what it is based on. Even if it was, though, as long as it is all based on reason, arbitrary never comes into play. Even going back to the construction of the original campaign(if the DM created it), the design of the campaign is based on reason. What's more, even if the original world was created completely on a whim, further decisions that use that whim as the foundation for the decision are in fact not arbitrary. I would have a reason for the decision that I just made. What happened originally doesn't alter the fact that I would be using reason for the decision. [/QUOTE]
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