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Where's that? Is it a Canadian province? Or part of New Zealand?

Second post and I think the thread already had a pretty good and workable answer. Open-ended, ongoing games have any number of informal...

I've left tables when everyone else was clearly enjoying the play but it was driving me kinda nuts (in a bad way). I have persistently...

Yes, agreed. Let's face it: there are different approaches to RPGing, different playstyles, different values, different aesthetic...

Yeah, ideally you can enjoy the game, whether you win or lose. I didn't understand the OP or the conversation to be about enjoyment, as...

Maybe 'the rest of the world' just means the US, but in the UK poor loser and bad loser are common and sore loser is not.

I'm with you. I used to play Magic the Gathering at a semi-competitive level (two GP day twos and one PT), and I still play at local...

I've never found discussions of "fun" particularly useful or relevant. It's clearly something people can get from games, but isn't...

I think the last sentence is the important thing, though there is a large middle space between your two options, and there's nothing...

If optimizing wasn't encouraged behavior by default the game shouldn't make optimizing good. Case in point: Swords & Wizardry Complete...

That is fair, but thats a general problem. Also if you just have "normal" players and bad ones at the table, or "normal" and optimizers...

That is absolutely not true. You can just design harder fights. But designing more difficult fights is not more demanding for the DM, at...

As usual, this is the opposite of my experience; optimizers are at their best in hard games, and in fact, are often bred by same. The...

I generally think that role-playing is specifically the domain of goal-setting, and that it's symbiotic with the "game" stuff to make...