Mordacius

$1 billion to start.

Fudged dice ruin the mood for me. If I’m playing, I’m there to figure out how to make crazy things work in spite of the risks. If I can’t have that, I’d rather just read a book.

I don’t usually talk about it in the middle though - I believe arguments at the table should be reserved for serious conflicts (rudeness between players and so on), not personal preferences. This is more a reason I’d check out of a campaign gracefully, and it’s also one of a hundred reasons I really prefer to GM instead of play.

This. I was phone support for dial-up internet for the transition - when I started, we just did our best and frequently worked with customers at their level. I enjoyed that, the customers did too. I got promoted easily.

By the time our jobs were getting shipped overseas and we were all getting fired, they replaced that with a ‘knowledge tree’ everyone was supposed to follow regardless of our personal experience in order to make sure all customers got the exact same experience. Softened the blow. I never went back to tech support as a job.

(This was like twenty years ago. I imagine it’s only gotten more stifling since then.)

Thanks for sharing that. I appreciate finding out about her writing generally, and I agree that this is as relevant now as it was… literally every other time this same thing happened.