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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harr" data-source="post: 4573687" data-attributes="member: 47190">I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's some sort of disconnect between what goes on online and what actually happens in "real world" D&D... when I'm reading ENWorld I'm constantly bombarded with how much more awesome stories and roleplaying and getting into character are and how everybody does them and how you shouldn't focus on the combat so much. Then I go to my local gaming store and it's the complete opposite. I don't know a single person who would ever admit to liking the playacting and the pretending part of D&D more than the combat, even though we have a pretty wide circle of gamers in our club and my group. For us the story and the characters are a thin sugar coating over the real reason for playing which is strategy, tactics and dungeon crawling combat. I mean it's not like we run from it, sure, it's great to have a background and an actual reason to be in the adventure that everyone can get behind or crack jokes about, but anybody who takes it further than that is gong to have a bit of eye-rolling and smirking going on behind his back. Nothing mean-spirite or anything, but that's just how it is, it's seen as just a bit weird.I guess maybe as said above people who actually get motivated to get online and go to forums are the same people who would take that kind of stuff seriously? I don't know, cause I am not one of those people and yet I'm here... so *shrug*</blockquote>

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