Re: Undead Persistence, wording of optional press


<nystulc@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:65df3704-fb14-479f-bc37-61e31d7f991a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Jun 3, 10:49 am, "Frederick Scott" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was arguing to drop the near meaningless and hard-to-
express exception to the end of combat because it can easily be
confused for that clause. Basically, if that clause doesn't turn
Undead Persistence into superior Conquer the Beast, then let's get
rid of the clause altogether so no OTHER gaming groups accidentally
turn inferior Undead Persistence into superior Conquer the Beast (because
they're ignorant and mostly because they'd NEVER SUSPECT IN A MILLION
YEARS that people would waste any ink on such a nit :-P ).

The problem, basically, is that because it contains language similar
to "Trap" and "Conquer the Beast", people assume it does the same
thing. They fail to read it closely, and read in a clause that is not
there.

Well, it isn't _only_ that, no. It's also because it's a natural thing
for people to expect that if the designers bothered to write so many words,
there was a good reason. It tends to surprise people to have so much
bother made over such a minor nit. Such surprises in the world of
computer software are termed "user astonishment" - and they cause real
problems when not taken into consideration. When software users make
mistakes, they think the product is buggy (giving the software an
undeserved bad reputation for bugginess) and/or they call into the user
help line and cost the manufacturer lots of extra resources helping
users understand how to use their product.

Fred


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