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<blockquote data-quote="GregoryOatmeal" data-source="post: 5716280" data-attributes="member: 6667661">That's a very curious statement. The implication is that owning and memorizing books translates to running good games? I don't buy it. I've had awesome games with completely inexperienced DMs.I would take it so far to say that I've found a slight inverse correlation between a player's knowledge of the game and their ability to create memorable scenarios and characters. The players that read through the books and say &quot;Dude, if I take this feat I can expand my crit range from 16-20&quot; just seem incapable of making interesting/memorable characters or DMing. Just my experience.Why does everyone frown upon running a less rules-intensive game? No one else in the group owns a PF Core book, Sir Poofs-a-Lot can't run circles around me with rules, people in the group can't seem to remember what their feats do anyway, there's less potential for munchkining out and having huge power spreads between the gamers, and I know no one else will be reading the combat chapter of the base game anyway. I don't think any of my other players even know what a prestige class is anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GregoryOatmeal, post: 5716280, member: 6667661"] That's a very curious statement. The implication is that owning and memorizing books translates to running good games? I don't buy it. I've had awesome games with completely inexperienced DMs. I would take it so far to say that I've found a slight inverse correlation between a player's knowledge of the game and their ability to create memorable scenarios and characters. The players that read through the books and say "Dude, if I take this feat I can expand my crit range from 16-20" just seem incapable of making interesting/memorable characters or DMing. Just my experience. Why does everyone frown upon running a less rules-intensive game? No one else in the group owns a PF Core book, Sir Poofs-a-Lot can't run circles around me with rules, people in the group can't seem to remember what their feats do anyway, there's less potential for munchkining out and having huge power spreads between the gamers, and I know no one else will be reading the combat chapter of the base game anyway. I don't think any of my other players even know what a prestige class is anyway. [/QUOTE]

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