(Yes, you hear stories about people who house rule before playing, or players who bring a half-elf druid to a Cyberpunk game, but I maintain they're in a tiny minority.)

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As an aside, it's been my experience that most people will attempt to engage with games in good faith and run them according to the rules they are presented with.

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This whole thread is good.

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It is my firm belief that as a game designer it is your *responsibility* to make a game which is broadly fit for it's stated purpose right out of the box. Yes, people can and will fuck about with it, but that doesn't change the responsibility you have to make it good in the first place.

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one of the things that helped me understand the usa as an outsider the most was the realization that the average yank is deathly afraid of anything existing without their explicit approval, as illustrated by this article about people being terrified of big plastic skeletons

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