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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 4356328" data-attributes="member: 3820">I've never seen anyone use the term "emogoth" or any such similar made-up pseudo-derisive term in such a way that I felt they were making an accurate observation. I've only seen them used in emotional arguments. Of which there are certainly plenty on the Internet, particularly on this board over the last month or two.Your anecdotal experience does not match mine. I've found that people who are spotlight-seekers are in exactly the same proportion regardless of genre, having nothing to do with a preference for dark trappings. They argue for the right to play gnomes as irritating tricksters with "eccentric" names so that the other players are forced to constantly react to their "hijinks." They try to play characters who are More Virtuous than their fellows so that they can grab the spotlight for extended bouts of playing moral superiority. They play deckers so that they can take over the game session to show off with one-on-one roleplaying. They want to take part in published campaign settings so they can excoriate any other player (or indeed person on the internet) who doesn't share the same One True Vision of what the Only Setting Worth Playing In Is Like. They play wizards with outlandishly baroque powers so that they can have a special power to dramatically solve every situation.Gamers who make melodramatic bids for the spotlight are, in fact, present for every single classification of character that you would care to write on your character sheet, and in pretty much the same proportion. The assumption that there's a greater number of them attracted to dark trappings — or that the ones attracted to dark trappings are any more annoying than the ones with any other particular favorite genre or means of acting out — is in my experience seventeen gallons of lukewarm hogwash.</blockquote>

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