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<blockquote data-quote="PaulofCthulhu" data-source="post: 4371451">Personal anecdotes only...I've never played WoW. It doesn't appeal to me. I have friends who play it a lot. Does it surpress their imagnation? I don't know. I do know for my firends it is a big time sink and something they think about a lot even when not playing (for example they talk about it at parties or even during 'off spotlight' moments in tabletop RPG sessions. We steer them to another topic, often they come back to WoW later.)Perhaps that makes them WoW boors, but they obviously like WoW. That's purely up to them. It does have an effect on tabletop play when the DM complains his players are unresponsive/falling asleep during the game due to having been up till 4 AM playing Warcraft.I suspect it is just the time sink and the focus on the game, even away from the computer, that is likely the cause of possible issues, but I have no proof.Anything could be a time sink for someone. Regarding activity, TV is probably the &quot;worst&quot; in my own opinon as it is the most passive, in WoW at least you engage with it actively to some degree. Reading is active, you have to pull the words by your own will into your brain and interpret them.TV is probably the great population pacifier ever invented. In the UK it's even government sponsored. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Yes, I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek with all this, but fun to put down the words.I will say that I've noticed a number of friends moving off from WoW, getting bored with it, spending more time with tabletop again, so perhaps it's swings &amp; roundabouts?Just my two-penneth!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PaulofCthulhu, post: 4371451"] Personal anecdotes only... I've never played WoW. It doesn't appeal to me. I have friends who play it a lot. Does it surpress their imagnation? I don't know. I do know for my firends it is a big time sink and something they think about a lot even when not playing (for example they talk about it at parties or even during 'off spotlight' moments in tabletop RPG sessions. We steer them to another topic, often they come back to WoW later.) Perhaps that makes them WoW boors, but they obviously like WoW. That's purely up to them. It does have an effect on tabletop play when the DM complains his players are unresponsive/falling asleep during the game due to having been up till 4 AM playing Warcraft. I suspect it is just the time sink and the focus on the game, even away from the computer, that is likely the cause of possible issues, but I have no proof. Anything could be a time sink for someone. Regarding activity, TV is probably the "worst" in my own opinon as it is the most passive, in WoW at least you engage with it actively to some degree. Reading is active, you have to pull the words by your own will into your brain and interpret them. TV is probably the great population pacifier ever invented. In the UK it's even government sponsored. :) Yes, I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek with all this, but fun to put down the words. I will say that I've noticed a number of friends moving off from WoW, getting bored with it, spending more time with tabletop again, so perhaps it's swings & roundabouts? Just my two-penneth! [/QUOTE]

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