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Gaming Experience Does Not Equal Gaming Skill
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<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 5051347" data-attributes="member: 17106"><p>Experience is certainly not skill, which requires experience but also intelligence and wisdom (strange how many D&D terms made it into that).</p><p></p><p>There's a commonly cited figure of needing ~10,000 hours of experience to become an "expert" at anything. Even long-time D&D players may not ever reach that.</p><p></p><p>And of course, D&D is such a heterogeneous game that skill at it is vaguely defined at best.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if I'm the example; as this is about how long I've been playing and it does seem like a lot less than the average ENWorlder. Personally, I really qualify my observations about D&D less by the time I've been playing than by the number of situations I've played in. I've been in only one group-albeit one whose membership is so fluid that there's not an original member left. I know only my one style; I do that well but I don't know too much about other people's D&D. I was shocked, for instance, to find out how many people on these boards used miniatures regularly, or even when I originally learned that people do PbP games. Thus I would consider myself highly skilled but I would qualify that skill's applicability.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 5051347, member: 17106"] Experience is certainly not skill, which requires experience but also intelligence and wisdom (strange how many D&D terms made it into that). There's a commonly cited figure of needing ~10,000 hours of experience to become an "expert" at anything. Even long-time D&D players may not ever reach that. And of course, D&D is such a heterogeneous game that skill at it is vaguely defined at best. I wonder if I'm the example; as this is about how long I've been playing and it does seem like a lot less than the average ENWorlder. Personally, I really qualify my observations about D&D less by the time I've been playing than by the number of situations I've played in. I've been in only one group-albeit one whose membership is so fluid that there's not an original member left. I know only my one style; I do that well but I don't know too much about other people's D&D. I was shocked, for instance, to find out how many people on these boards used miniatures regularly, or even when I originally learned that people do PbP games. Thus I would consider myself highly skilled but I would qualify that skill's applicability. [/QUOTE]
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