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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8383804" data-attributes="member: 177">Now please, do it again, and pay more attention to &quot;set aside the specific wording from WotC for a moment.&quot; Let us look at the concept outside of WotC's statements for a bit.But, by your own assertion, Downtime doesn't fit well into these pillars - it calls for its own pillar, in your mind. Why are you saying every action of the table is 100% described by the three pillars, when you say there ought to be a fourth? --------I have three file boxes - Red, Yellow, and Green.&nbsp; I sort things into boxes by color.Now, consider what we should do with this:&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]142783[/ATTACH]Many would just shrug, and put it in the Red box.&nbsp; Others would say they need a new box for things like this.&nbsp; And others might just leave it out, because it is one small item, and there's so many that cleanly fit into boxes. Others might ask:&nbsp; What is the purpose of putting things in boxes?&nbsp; We can tell what box it should go in, if any, if we know the purpose for the exercise.If the purpose of the exercise is, for example, to criticize how WotC talks about its games, by noting how one of the boxes is kind of battered and ripped, we can just stop now, because that is terribly uninteresting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8383804, member: 177"] Now please, do it again, and pay more attention to "[B]set aside[/B] the specific wording from WotC for a moment." Let us look at the concept outside of WotC's statements for a bit. But, by your own assertion, Downtime doesn't fit well into these pillars - it calls for its own pillar, in your mind. Why are you saying every action of the table is 100% described by the three pillars, when you say there ought to be a fourth? -------- I have three file boxes - Red, Yellow, and Green. I sort things into boxes by color. Now, consider what we should do with this: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1629985774989.png"]142783[/ATTACH] Many would just shrug, and put it in the Red box. Others would say they need a new box for things like this. And others might just leave it out, because it is one small item, and there's so many that cleanly fit into boxes. Others might ask: [I]What is the purpose of putting things in boxes? [/I]We can tell what box it should go in, if any, if we know the purpose for the exercise. If the purpose of the exercise is, for example, to criticize how WotC talks about its games, by noting how one of the boxes is kind of battered and ripped, we can just stop now, because that is terribly uninteresting. [/QUOTE]

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