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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 6321583" data-attributes="member: 12037">Think of the 1% problem as a shorthand for people doing things that they'd rather not do if they see benefit to it. Then, to take it a step further, they will do something that they hate in order to see a miniscule benefit, because they aren't good at judging the worth of the loss of fun vs. the worth of the benefit.Examples from WoW would be spending 2 hours every day on daily quests because you can, or leveling 10 alts to play WoW farmville for a couple of hours every day, even though you dislike these activities. And, by golly, people hate Blizzard for "making" them do these things. So, the question then becomes, what about TTRPGs? Will people play the game with a strict rule reading even though they hate that reading? Or will they play a way that they find fun, because that's what they're at the table to do, presumably.Okay, having said that, I think I know what my main beef with all this Topic-That-Will-Not-Be-Named thing is.I think there are two parties at play here. Those who want to come to the Internet and discuss rules and those who want to discuss gameplay, and those two are often on a collision course. If I come to ENWorld, and I want to discuss things that are going to impact my game, with a practical mind toward D&D 5e, and another guy comes along, and he's interested in talking about the rules, how they interact, and thinking as a designer, then we are only going to make each other upset as we talk. Because, I don't care about discussing corner case rules. They don't matter in my actual game. At all. But, to the rule-discussion guy those are the most interesting things to talk about.And thus you get frustration.</blockquote>

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