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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scotley" data-source="post: 5194167" data-attributes="member: 11520"><p>There have been definite changes over the years, but other things have stayed the same. I guess I'm a gamist at heart and always have been. I've never been much of a thespian. I started playing and Dm'ing when I was 10, so the earliest years were marked by that immaturity. There was some munchkin stuff going on back then to say the least. In high school I was more simulationist. We often had calculators out to figure spell areas or fall speeds and otherwise try to apply real world physics to the games. I have always enjoyed playing effective characters, but have rarely risen to the level of full on optimizing. I think playing grossly sub-optimal characters makes the gamest in me feel like I'm losing, while over optimizing it takes some of the fun out of it too. That said, I do make choices that favor story or flavor over optimization quite often. That hasn't always been the case. I like to develop backstories and personality for characters then have them grow and change and as a DM I like to have a story arc to the game and I love world building so there is some storyteller in me too. That hasn't changed much over my gaming career. I don't get to game face to face much at all anymore. Maybe once or twice a year. So about 6 years ago my gaming moved almost exclusively to EN World. That was certainly a big change. There wasn't an 'online' when I started gaming in the late seventies. I still enjoy DMing and I've done so since my earliest days. I think I took the DM plunge the third time I gamed. In terms of full circle. I started out with D&D and I'm back there again having played lots of other systems along the way. I don't want to start and edition war, but I play 3.5, Pathfinder and 4e these days, so most folks will agree that I still play D&D at least part of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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