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<blockquote data-quote="Jacob Marley" data-source="post: 6257666" data-attributes="member: 89537">Alexis over at The Tao of D&amp;D had a couple of interesting posts about 'fun' last December. (I won't link to those posts as his choice of language often runs afoul of this board's rules. Anyone who is interested can seek the posts out - December 6, 2013 and December 9, 2013.)I have been a D&amp;D player for over twenty-three years, a M:tG player for over twenty years, and a board game player for over fifteen years. I would hesitate before referring to much of that time as being 'fun.' A better description would be: periods of frustration punctuated by points of satisfaction. On Sunday I will be getting together with some friends for board games. Undoubtedly, J will suggest we play Through the Desert. An observer will see five guys sitting around a table, sighing heavily as we take turns placing camels on the board. It will be a frustrating experience! At the end of the game we will all sit back, satisfied with our decision-making. We will all enjoy the mental challenge. None of us will have fun. We will play again. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jacob Marley, post: 6257666, member: 89537"] Alexis over at The Tao of D&D had a couple of interesting posts about 'fun' last December. (I won't link to those posts as his choice of language often runs afoul of this board's rules. Anyone who is interested can seek the posts out - December 6, 2013 and December 9, 2013.) I have been a D&D player for over twenty-three years, a M:tG player for over twenty years, and a board game player for over fifteen years. I would hesitate before referring to much of that time as being 'fun.' A better description would be: periods of frustration punctuated by points of satisfaction. On Sunday I will be getting together with some friends for board games. Undoubtedly, J will suggest we play [I]Through the Desert[/I]. An observer will see five guys sitting around a table, sighing heavily as we take turns placing camels on the board. It will be a frustrating experience! At the end of the game we will all sit back, satisfied with our decision-making. We will all enjoy the mental challenge. None of us will have fun. We will play again. :D [/QUOTE]

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