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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 5015224" data-attributes="member: 40961">Things that can change:1. Your preferences may change.  You might like horror stories, and then over time cease liking them so much, and therefore rate a game designed to tell horror stories lower than before.2. Your beliefs about the degree to which a game actually matches your preferences may change.  For example, you might expect that a game is great for horror stories, and then with experience trying to use it to do horror stories, conclude that it is not.3. A game might perfectly satisfy your preferences, and that experience might cause you to realize that your preferences weren't very wise.  For example, I loved the 3e idea of monsters and characters generated with the same procedural rules, permitting me to combine, mix, and match monster and pc information with a procedural system.  Now, having experienced a herculean effort towards creating a game based on that idea, I'm not so convinced that the idea had as much merit as I thought.4. The addition of supplements or rules additions, probably added to satisfy one or more people at the table, may make the game less fun for you.  For example, it is common to find people on ENWorld who (claim that they) are literally incapable of having fun gaming or DMing if you are playing a character they do not like.  Personally, I'm not sure about the legitimacy of this attitude, it seems like a strange merger of Coasian philosophy and the proverbial Utility Monster, but they do exist.5. The degree to which the game represents an unsolved puzzle may change as you solve it.  For example, you may begin playing a game fascinated by the many options available to you, and determined to figure out how to create a great, I dunno, pyromancer.  Once you've figured this out, that particular thrill is gone.6. Your experience and proficiency with a game may cause to look different to you over time.  For example, I first played a superhero RPG recently that offered hundreds of special powers.  But now that I've played it a bit I know that some of those powers are lousy, inferior compared to other powers, or even flat out counterproductive.  I can try to ignore this knowledge, but to a certain extent it means that the game that used to have hundreds of powers now has dozens.7. A new game may come along that does what the old game does, but better.  This may cause you to alter your opinions about what the older game does or does not do well.There are probably more.</blockquote>

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