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2008-07-15T13:52:22Z

Common Sense

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	Call it pride on the players part. It's the difference between receiving an insurance check after a disaster and getting charity.		Call it pride on the players part. It's the difference between receiving an insurance check after a disaster and getting charity.

			:Definitely have to agree with the counter. Not all gamers are created equal. Both might be equally intelligent and have wildly different views on things. A very common area where this kind of thing comes up is the use of Tactics. GM thinks X is the best course for the players to set, player A believes Y is best. Player A is confident, leads team to do Y. GM is all upset becasue players ignored obvious tactics and kills off the team. Player A is upset because his great tactics were ignored. Everyone ends up losing. Common Sense could avoid that kind of situation, where player 'knows' he's right, so isn't going to ask for any rolls. On the other hand, I think the first poster was saying that in his/her gming style, they'd just make the roll anyhow, common sense or not. IE: Everyone gets the advantage for free, why make anyone pay for it.
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	Definitely have to agree with the counter. Not all gamers are created equal. Both might be equally intelligent and have wildly different views on things. A very common area where this kind of thing comes up is the use of Tactics. GM thinks X is the best course for the players to set, player A believes Y is best. Player A is confident, leads team to do Y. GM is all upset becasue players ignored obvious tactics and kills off the team. Player A is upset because his great tactics were ignored. Everyone ends up losing. Common Sense could avoid that kind of situation, where player 'knows' he's right, so isn't going to ask for any rolls. On the other hand, I think the first poster was saying that in his/her gming style, they'd just make the roll anyhow, common sense or not. IE: Everyone gets the advantage for free, why make anyone pay for it.

12.226.171.124: /* Common Sense */

2008-02-25T17:01:37Z

Common Sense

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			Definitely have to agree with the counter. Not all gamers are created equal. Both might be equally intelligent and have wildly different views on things. A very common area where this kind of thing comes up is the use of Tactics. GM thinks X is the best course for the players to set, player A believes Y is best. Player A is confident, leads team to do Y. GM is all upset becasue players ignored obvious tactics and kills off the team. Player A is upset because his great tactics were ignored. Everyone ends up losing. Common Sense could avoid that kind of situation, where player 'knows' he's right, so isn't going to ask for any rolls. On the other hand, I think the first poster was saying that in his/her gming style, they'd just make the roll anyhow, common sense or not. IE: Everyone gets the advantage for free, why make anyone pay for it.

Seanr451 at 02:36, 11 May 2006

2006-05-11T02:36:28Z

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	Call it pride on the players part. It's the difference between receiving an insurance check after a disaster and getting charity.		Call it pride on the players part. It's the difference between receiving an insurance check after a disaster and getting charity.

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Seanr451 at 02:17, 11 May 2006

2006-05-11T02:17:37Z

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Advantages for characters using the [[GURPS]] [[role-playing game]] system.

==Common Sense==
Anyone who actually allows / uses this advantage, please rewrite this article if your experience is substantially different from the following.

The Common Sense advantage seems largely useless, as an IQ roll to realize he's about to do something stupid is a courtesy that ought to be granted to any [[PC]]. The net effect of Common Sense is to penalize a [[character]] by 10 points for being played by an inexperienced, bad, or dumb [[player]].

'''Counteropinion''':
My experience differs. You'd be ASTOUNDED at how often experienced gamers can get on the wrong track. Simply giving the players correct information doesn't work, it makes you the GM a ''railroading'' GM. Now if they have paid the points the characters are now ''entitled'' to that correction.

Call it pride on the players part. It's the difference between receiving an insurance check after a disaster and getting charity.

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