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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5806315" data-attributes="member: 58416">For me, that depends upon the situation.  If I'm part of a small group and we're in a skirmish, tactics will -at that time- be more important.  If my character becomes a platoon leader or a lord of a castle or something similar, I'm perfectly happy with sketching out long term plans.  Some of my favorite video games include Syndicate Wars (tactics), Fallout Tactics (tactics), Sim City (strategy), and Romance of The Three Kingdoms (strategy for the big picture; tactics in individual battles.)  I'm not trying to give an ambiguous answer, but those are honestly my interests, and both aspects of warfare are things which interest me.  I also have experience with and value both due to having a military background myself.  My preference is a game which can move from one mode (tactics) of play to the other (strategy) as seamlessly as possible.  I would like to try to get more information about what my style of gaming is though.  I believe it would help me to better understand what I want out of a game (and what I might want out of D&Dn) if I had a better understanding of myself as a gamer.  Unfortunately, it seems rare that I neatly fit into categories or the language used to talk about tabletop gaming.  The main thing I notice about myself is that I value story.  I've made the comment before that I'd prefer my rpg experience to feel more like a book than a movie.  With that in mind, two of the answers to this poll seem to fit.  Unfortunately, those two answers also conflict with each other.</blockquote>

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