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<blockquote data-quote="GnomeWorks" data-source="post: 4680759" data-attributes="member: 162">I am defensive because I'm tired of my particular approach to gaming being treated as though it were inferior or somehow dysfunctional.&nbsp;No religion, kthx.&nbsp;As pointed out several pages ago (which you may not have read), &quot;fun&quot; is not the purpose of the game. We play the game for a variety of reasons, because we find those reasons fun.I find fun in gaming the way I do. You do not find my way fun. This is fine.I am uninterested in drama. &quot;Drama&quot; and &quot;fun&quot; are not, for me, synonymous.&nbsp;It really is. That you and others find it &quot;refreshing and liberating&quot; is fine. For me, it is absurd.&nbsp;I'm not trying to convince people that my way is superior. I am trying to get across that my approach is as equally valid as that of anyone else, and that I am not &quot;doing it wrong&quot; or what-have-you.I am aware that not everyone has the kind of time to spend on their settings that I do. I do not have a problem with people playing the game differently than I; we are all different folk, and have different interests. I take issue with people trying to tell me that I'm doing it wrong.I do not try for a high level of consistency for my players. I do it because I, as a DM, would have great difficulty running a setting that is not internally-consistent.Whether or not my players - or anyone else, for that matter - would hold it against me is not my concern. I would hold it against myself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GnomeWorks, post: 4680759, member: 162"] I am defensive because I'm tired of my particular approach to gaming being treated as though it were inferior or somehow dysfunctional. No religion, kthx. As pointed out several pages ago (which you may not have read), "fun" is not the purpose of the game. We play the game for a variety of reasons, because we find those reasons fun. I find fun in gaming the way I do. You do not find my way fun. This is fine. I am uninterested in drama. "Drama" and "fun" are not, for me, synonymous. It really is. That you and others find it "refreshing and liberating" is fine. For me, it is absurd. I'm not trying to convince people that my way is superior. I am trying to get across that my approach is as equally valid as that of anyone else, and that I am not "doing it wrong" or what-have-you. I am aware that not everyone has the kind of time to spend on their settings that I do. I do not have a problem with people playing the game differently than I; we are all different folk, and have different interests. I take issue with people trying to tell me that I'm doing it wrong. I do not try for a high level of consistency for my players. I do it because I, as a DM, would have great difficulty running a setting that is not internally-consistent. Whether or not my players - or anyone else, for that matter - would hold it against me is not my concern. I would hold it against myself. [/QUOTE]

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