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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Dec 15, 2022 17:54:17 GMT -5
Rules Are Written in Blood (Advice For GMs and Game Designers Alike)It would take a 500 page tome to spell out all the things in detail that even OD&D assumes that players and refs know. And to even attempt to foil the malicious and you would fail, because it is impossible to anticipate all evil. I remember the last time I bought a garden tiller and its instruction included the comment that no one should be within 100' of you while you are operating it.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Dec 16, 2022 22:50:34 GMT -5
Rules Are Written in Blood (Advice For GMs and Game Designers Alike)It would take a 500 page tome to spell out all the things in detail that even OD&D assumes that players and refs know. And to even attempt to foil the malicious and you would fail, because it is impossible to anticipate all evil. I remember the last time I bought a garden tiller and its instruction included the comment that no one should be within 100' of you while you are operating it. There are some good points brought up in this post. I have rolled my eyes at some of the rules I've had to read at jobs. I don't know about the current flashlights from work - I'll have to check the package - but at one time the package had a warning label on it that clearly stated "Using this flashlight will not prevent a shark attack.".  |
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Post by Morose on Dec 19, 2022 21:59:38 GMT -5
Good article, as people get more clueless and their ability to reason fails to develop, more silly warnings against doing things that any 1st grader should have enough sense not to do are needed. Granted the average person (i.e. working class) mostly does not need these warning, but everyone else does.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jan 13, 2023 19:00:14 GMT -5
This has crossed my mind more than once, but I am not sure to what end.
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Post by Vladimir, The Dark Prince on Mar 14, 2023 22:23:51 GMT -5
I think we should ban those warnings that common sense should take care of and let nature take its course.
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Post by Morose on Mar 14, 2023 23:08:31 GMT -5
I think we should ban those warnings that common sense should take care of and let nature take its course. I could get behind that. I saw something that posed the question are people evil or stupid and IMO the people he was talking about are evil and stupid. |
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Post by Vladimir, The Dark Prince on Mar 15, 2023 13:11:20 GMT -5
I think we should ban those warnings that common sense should take care of and let nature take its course. I could get behind that. I saw something that posed the question are people evil or stupid and IMO the people he was talking about are evil and stupid. These days, I think you should have to pass a common sense test in order to be allowed to have children. Good people that should have children can't and disgusting scum that should not be allowed within a mile of children are having 5 or 6. That is a lot of why society is going downhill. But now a lot of the people who should not have children are neutering themselves, so maybe long term there is some hope. |
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Post by Morose on Mar 15, 2023 13:50:47 GMT -5
I could get behind that. I saw something that posed the question are people evil or stupid and IMO the people he was talking about are evil and stupid. These days, I think you should have to pass a common sense test in order to be allowed to have children. Good people that should have children can't and disgusting scum that should not be allowed within a mile of children are having 5 or 6. That is a lot of why society is going downhill. But now a lot of the people who should not have children are neutering themselves, so maybe long term there is some hope. I could not agree more. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Mar 18, 2023 7:49:02 GMT -5
These days, I think you should have to pass a common sense test in order to be allowed to have children. Good people that should have children can't and disgusting scum that should not be allowed within a mile of children are having 5 or 6. That is a lot of why society is going downhill. But now a lot of the people who should not have children are neutering themselves, so maybe long term there is some hope. I could not agree more. That's where I'm at with some of these "parents" I see out there. On a positive note, I have a family member that went out of their way to let everyone know that him and his wife have not only decided to NOT have children but have done the necessary medical procedures to ensure that never happens. I applaud that life choice. Best. Decision. Ever. |
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Post by hengest on May 29, 2023 16:15:36 GMT -5
Rules Are Written in Blood (Advice For GMs and Game Designers Alike)It would take a 500 page tome to spell out all the things in detail that even OD&D assumes that players and refs know. And to even attempt to foil the malicious and you would fail, because it is impossible to anticipate all evil. I remember the last time I bought a garden tiller and its instruction included the comment that no one should be within 100' of you while you are operating it. Generally speaking, I like clarity. But I agree that there are always more degrees of silliness than there are degrees of clarity. Further: hey, why not let it animate a statue of a skeleton? Or have the caster roll against some roll by the living "owner" of the internal skeleton...it's a game. Make it up and have fun. Is a game where the designer anticipated everything that could happen really going to be more fun? |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jun 3, 2023 7:30:42 GMT -5
Rules Are Written in Blood (Advice For GMs and Game Designers Alike)It would take a 500 page tome to spell out all the things in detail that even OD&D assumes that players and refs know. And to even attempt to foil the malicious and you would fail, because it is impossible to anticipate all evil. I remember the last time I bought a garden tiller and its instruction included the comment that no one should be within 100' of you while you are operating it. Generally speaking, I like clarity. But I agree that there are always more degrees of silliness than there are degrees of clarity. Further: hey, why not let it animate a statue of a skeleton? Or have the caster roll against some roll by the living "owner" of the internal skeleton...it's a game. Make it up and have fun. Is a game where the designer anticipated everything that could happen really going to be more fun? "Go with the flow" is always the best way to approach it in my opinion. Use the rules HELP you rather than hinder you by checking every action against an established rule. This hobby is definitely one where the spirit of the rules is way more important than the letter of the rules. |
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Post by simrion on Jun 11, 2023 6:01:00 GMT -5
In our litigious society common sense is no longer so common  |
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Post by muddywater on Mar 27, 2024 21:44:29 GMT -5
Even with the warnings being so over the top, people still manage to win Darwin Awards. |
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