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No offense, but these are all vague platitudes. What specifically did you apply, why do you think you could not have learned just as...

I could also miss out on something because I spent time playing that other game. We all make decisions on how to spend our time, what...

But the implication always seems to be that people can't learn about flashbacks from BitD or come up with something similar and consider...

I get that various games do specific genres better. But unless I picked a very specific and narrowly focused game where all you do is...

Really? Care to quote? Maybe I missed it. I've seen (paraphrased): "If you don't learn this way, you can't be good." But I haven't...

As Bruce Lee said, fear not a man who practiced 1000 punches once. Fear the man who practiced one punch 1000 times. Same logic applies...

Thank you, Mr Vague Platitude. :)

So how does that work? I've seen that suggested for D&D over the years. It's not something I incorporated, if someone wants to add to...

Obviously I think that whether or not someone has run multiple games has nothing to do with how good a DM they are for D&D. It could...

It's quite a take to substitute "running 5e" for being a general surgeon.

Is this the same if there are two doctors and one only works on brains and the other is a general surgeon? And your loved one need...

Same. My primary decision making point is - do i want to spend 3-4 hours, week after week, hanging around with that person. He/she might...

I choose the one I'd enjoy having a beer with, who I know from experience is someone I get along with and isn't likely to cause drama...

Best DM i had was DM who only ever ran or played D&D if we don't count LARP. Ok, it helped he finished School of applied arts, then...

I think for some people it might help but everyone is different. There is no one size fits all.