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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AffableVagrant" data-source="post: 3817230" data-attributes="member: 55446">That's a really good point.  WoW seems (not to knock its players) to offer the lowest common denominator of dungeon crawls.  I've only played WoW a few hours and I immediately found myself furiously clicking through the pointless character interactions so I could move on to the next XP farm.  The story wasn't a fun part of the game, it was an irritating cut scene that was eating into my hack time.  The P2P interaction was incidental.  For the most part, I didn't care about anything that was going on around me unless some guy I knew wanted to go raid a cave with me.  If it wasn't massively multiplayer, I'd hardly even notice the difference.Tabletop RPGs can be like this, but not when they're being run well.  Player interaction is crucial.  D&D also allows for creative problem solving that has nothing to do with fighting.  I can't count the number of inside jokes and bragging stories that have developed out of my D&D games, but I can't think of one for any computer/console game (and I've played plenty).  To summarize my rant: If tabletop RPGs are going to survive, I think the flexibility of a DM and the priceless social interaction should be stressed as the one thing videogames don't (and maybe never will) have.  For these reasons, Gleemax and the DDI Tabletop sound like a great ideas, and I'm really excited to see this work for D&D and all its fans.</blockquote>

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