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"You can't assume things"
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Patryn of Elvenshae
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Quick! Quick! Disbelieve the illusion before she eats your soul!
Alternatively ...
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Dear Dragon,
I never expected this to happen to me! ...[/sblock]
LOL! This thread is hilarious!
At the same time it reminded me of an (ex-)player in our Earthdawn group who was constantly mentally paralyzed when you asked him what he wanted to do. He kept asking for additional details until it went beyond ridiculous, yet he insisted he couldn't decide what to do without getting those details. I assume he was also a believer in not assuming anything...
UnknownAtThisTime
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The phrase: -"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - applies to quite a lot of words in that conversation.
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LOL! This thread is hilarious!
At the same time it reminded me of an (ex-)player in our Earthdawn group who was constantly mentally paralyzed when you asked him what he wanted to do. He kept asking for additional details until it went beyond ridiculous, yet he insisted he couldn't decide what to do without getting those details. I assume he was also a believer in not assuming anything...
When I'm around people with OCD, I like to re-arrange things in front of them, so they are just slightly off. Like when playing Dominoes, I'll make sure every tile I put down is not perfectly aligned, always off kilter, etc.
Now I suppose that's a cruel thing to do, but if somebody is going to have disfunctional software faults, I'm going to exploit them until they get them patched.
With the analysis-paralysis person, I reckon the strategy would be to help them question everything, including their very reality and sanity. Once the men in the ncie white coats arrive to take him away, we can get back to gaming.
TheAuldGrump
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Ah, but then you can play with their minds via Cartoon Physics (TM):Not assuming things is a smart practice. Moving the curtain to see if there is anything beyond is not assumption, its exploration.
Assumption would be noting the curtain, not actually looking, then at some later point (perhaps after finding trouble later) running back into the room and diving through the curtain assuming that it hid a window.
Player A assumes there is a window, leaps through the curtain to the other side.
Player B looks through the curtain after Player A jumps through and there is no window!
The Auld Grump
ExploderWizard
Hero
Ah, but then you can play with their minds via Cartoon Physics (TM):
Player A assumes there is a window, leaps through the curtain to the other side.
Player B looks through the curtain after Player A jumps through and there is no window!
The Auld Grump
This can get complicated though. You can try to do that to player B but then they can argue that they are a barbarian and never studied law.
Zhaleskra
Adventurer
This can get complicated though. You can try to do that to player B but then they can argue that they are a barbarian and never studied law.
You remind me of an episode of I Am Weasel. I.R. Baboon keeps changing the laws of physics, but only lawyers are actually affected.
ExploderWizard
Hero
Never saw that. It worked for Bugs Bunny too.
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