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<blockquote data-quote="Older Beholder" data-source="post: 8561412" data-attributes="member: 6813585">I only really noticed the video game effect when I first started playing 5E upon it's release. It was a mix of people that had never played before and people that hadn't played since 2E.I still remember the first time they encountered a group of zombies, I'd briefly forgotten the Con check when the first one was slain, when I remembered the save, the zombie succeeded, so I described it suddenly getting back up. The players freaked out and assumed that one must be the lead zombie that had to be killed first to stop the others from coming back. It just struck me as a very 'video game based' reaction. It didn't ruin things though, if anything it added to the fun (at least for me)On the negative side, I had one player who wasn't having fun and would complain that he could just be playing video games, and would constantly bring up the comparison. There are other examples, but I found these things diminished the more we played as the players became more experienced and video games became less of a frame of reference.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Older Beholder, post: 8561412, member: 6813585"] I only really noticed the video game effect when I first started playing 5E upon it's release. It was a mix of people that had never played before and people that hadn't played since 2E. I still remember the first time they encountered a group of zombies, I'd briefly forgotten the Con check when the first one was slain, when I remembered the save, the zombie succeeded, so I described it suddenly getting back up. The players freaked out and assumed that one must be the lead zombie that had to be killed first to stop the others from coming back. It just struck me as a very 'video game based' reaction. It didn't ruin things though, if anything it added to the fun (at least for me) On the negative side, I had one player who wasn't having fun and would complain that he could just be playing video games, and would constantly bring up the comparison. There are other examples, but I found these things diminished the more we played as the players became more experienced and video games became less of a frame of reference. [/QUOTE]

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