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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6755613" data-attributes="member: 6701872">I'm going to respond to your statements in a different order than you made them, as that will better frame my response. Hope that doesn't confuse anyone.That confuses, because:Is the actual act of playing itself.Is the actual act of playing itself. Is the actual act of playing itself.Is the actual act of playing itself.Is the one and only thing you have mentioned which isn't the actual act of playing itself, it's just doing a bit of math that can actually be completely skipped out on and yet still have the people involved being actually playing the game, where as failing to do anything cool, escape reality, and achieve cool things for your characters means failing to actually play the game.There is a point at which a person is simply wrong about what is fair and what is not fair, and I think it is important to point out their error rather than try to accommodate their belief simply because they believe it - whether it is a kid that thinks it's not fair that they have to share their toys like everyone else shares with them, or an adult that thinks me choosing to keep everyone's characters at equal level for the sake of the entire group is unfair because they have a ridiculous idea what the point of playing a table-top role-playing game is.</blockquote>