D&D General A Venn Diagram Poll About D&D

[dave2008]

I also think it is dependent on whether you DM or play a PC. My players spend much more of their time discussing rules during the game. As the DM I spend the vast majority of my time discussing rules outside the game, mostly on forums like this one.

 

[Aeson]

No option for talking about everything but the game?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

No option for talking about everything but the game?

Certainly we spend more time discussing not-D&D than we do rules.

 

[Marc_C]

I depends of what kind of player you have in your group.

System mastery is pretty high in my group. So it's mostly fun 95%. I do have one player who frequently goes off on non-D&D tangents during the game. We bring him back to the game quickly. With only 3 hours to play on VTT there is no time for chit-chat if you want to get anything done. Sometimes we do talk about other things after the game for 15-20 minutes.

 

[Aeson]

Certainly we spend more time discussing not-D&D than we do rules.

That has been my experience. Sometimes it seemed like more than playing the game.

 

[Helldritch]

Definitely B with A

 

[ART!]

If I could make the two circles different sizes, the one for time spent discussing rules would be A LOT smaller than the one representing time playing, and then I would pick B or C.

 

[Stormonu]

B, unless my wife is playing or its 3E, in which case it is C.

 

[CleverNickName]

(Math Nerd moment: Properly speaking, B, C, and D are all equivalent in terms of Venn diagrams, which simply show which relations between sets exist, not the relative "sizes" of those relations: A says the union of blue and red is empty, E says their disjunctive union is empty, B/C/D all say neither of those is empty. I'm not aware of any diagram that shows the relative sizes of sets, though, so it's not a bad shorthand, as long as it's clear what you mean by it.)

It's true. In hindsight, I would have configured the diagram to use circles of different sizes, along with a subset that shows those options either overlapping, not overlapping, or overlapping completely.

Unfortunately the more granularity and options I add to the poll, the less entertaining the whole thing becomes. And the point was to make an entertaining poll, not an accurate study. I'd rather have a thread filled with lively discussion about why people voted and how their actual experience varies from the options presented in the poll.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

(Math Nerd moment: Properly speaking, B, C, and D are all equivalent in terms of Venn diagrams, which simply show which relations between sets exist, not the relative "sizes" of those relations: A says the union of blue and red is empty, E says their disjunctive union is empty, B/C/D all say neither of those is empty. I'm not aware of any diagram that shows the relative sizes of sets, though, so it's not a bad shorthand, as long as it's clear what you mean by it.)

Since somebody else brought it up. Yes to the above, plus A and E technically would not be Venn diagrams, since Venn Diagrams have to show every possible combination, but leave it empty if such a combination does not actually exist. Those could be less-famous but very useful Euler diagrams.

For what it's worth a true Venn diagram of time spent on gaming and rules discussion might look something like this: