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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 1065895" data-attributes="member: 891">I listed myself as a ROLE-player - though I am also a strict adherant to printed rules who doesn't tolerate ANY house rules in the games I run or play in.Printed, even from non official sources such as d20 publishers, yes. But house rules no. And I am very particular about following the rules of the game.Obviously I can't control what house rules another GM uses - so I get very selective over what GMs I will play under, and when I do end up in a game that has them I play characters who will somehow or another manage to avoid contact with the house rule. House rules just bug me...But, my focus in play is all story and characterization. Hack and slash, combat, dungeon crawling, metagaming, power gaming, and min maxing all do not generally interest me.I use them only in so far as they help me achieve concept, genre, and story.Over the years, I've noticed more of the opposite.Reflecting back, I'm seeing a roughly 4 to 1 ration favoring action over roleplay in the women.Among the men I can only think of a few who favored action and didn't get kicked out of my game for drugs, drinking to excess, fighting (real life), sexually innapropriate behaivoir, stalking, or something along those lines.All of those problem people favored action or powergaming save for a possible one.The bulk of the men I've seen at the table favored roleplay. Given the numbers of men I've gamed with, I'd peg a ratio at around 10 to 1 favoring roleplay if I included the wierdos, maybe 15 or 20 to 1 favoring roleplay if I cut them out.So...As for problematic female players -if I exclude the ones who couldn't stop talking about rape fantasies or making sexual remarks the ratio favoring roleplay over action goes to about 50-50.Funny how that sort of thing works out...Maybe this is why I have such a low opinion of powergamers --- my own experience with them has been strangely skewed.</blockquote>

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