Re: [HOE] Re: Ruining Boise Horror (was Secret book, and Lost Colony)

[Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>]

You're right, that was a bad example. It should be safe to assume that list
members have read the players' sections of the book. I was mainly irritated over
Rich's saying: "Granted, there was an indication in that post about the contents
of the adventure, but really, who didn't read Last Crusaders and think the same
thing?" Um, well, I didn't. Neither did the Templar player in my last game, and
she had studied it more than I did. Don't assume that a spoiler that was obvious
to you is also obvious to everyone else. To use another movie example, I saw
Fight Club with a bunch of friends, one of whom realized the protagonist's real
identity about 10 minutes into the movie and thought it was completely obvious.
None of the rest of us did, and he prudently refrained from sharing his leap of
logic and ruining the whole movie for the rest of us. Please follow that example
and be a little more sensitive to our inferior deductive skills.

--Robert Holland

>Similarly, when posting here we have to assume that any player reading it
>is allowed to read the player's section of the books.  Otherwise, there
>would be almost no content on this list at all without Spoiler warnings.
>
>On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:40:08 -0300 Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>
>writes:
>> Not everyone has the money or desire to buy and read every single 
>> sourcebook, and a lot of players prefer not to read books not relevant
>to their 
>> PCs, precisely to avoid this sort of thing.