Game Gab: One in Ten

[mike_brendan]

Erin Palette made a very interesting comment on her blog, which you can read here. She's been talking about the D&D setting she's been developing/running and it's been an interesting read (along with the rest of her blog), but this bit got a bug in my ear:

"Sensible people do not take unnecessary risks. They stay at home and live boring lives where

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[erin_palette]

Wow, thanks for the kind words, Mike! I'm always pleased whenever a reader gets mileage out of something I wrote. :)

The thing is, though, I don't feel I can take credit for this concept. I don't recall who said it first, but I recall reading an article in the mid-late 90s where a game designer -- it might have been Greg Stolze or Robin Laws or any one of similar luminaries -- who posited that adventurers are not smart, because smart people would stay at home where it is safe.