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<blockquote data-quote="Blackeagle" data-source="post: 4271383" data-attributes="member: 41120"><p>People have been dissecting RPGs and other games mathematically long before there was an internet. If you never knew anyone who did so before the internet, you simply didn't know the right people. The internet hasn't changed the way people play RPGs, it's simply exposed you to a wider spectrum of gamers.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Who are you to tell other people "what the game should be"? Powergaming isn't badwrongfun, any more than any other style of gaming. If you don't like powergaming, don't play with people who do, but don't tell people what they can and can't do at their own gaming table.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To some people that is the challenge. It may not be your cup of tea but that's no reason to accuse them of having badwrongfun.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It seems to me that the problem there lay with the player who's playing style was incompatible with the group and the DM who wasn't willing to step up and deal with the situation. Why are you blaming powergaming for what was fundamentally an interpersonal conflict within your gaming group?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blackeagle, post: 4271383, member: 41120"] People have been dissecting RPGs and other games mathematically long before there was an internet. If you never knew anyone who did so before the internet, you simply didn't know the right people. The internet hasn't changed the way people play RPGs, it's simply exposed you to a wider spectrum of gamers. Who are you to tell other people "what the game should be"? Powergaming isn't badwrongfun, any more than any other style of gaming. If you don't like powergaming, don't play with people who do, but don't tell people what they can and can't do at their own gaming table. To some people that is the challenge. It may not be your cup of tea but that's no reason to accuse them of having badwrongfun. It seems to me that the problem there lay with the player who's playing style was incompatible with the group and the DM who wasn't willing to step up and deal with the situation. Why are you blaming powergaming for what was fundamentally an interpersonal conflict within your gaming group? [/QUOTE]
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