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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 5098519" data-attributes="member: 99">I don't view this as an issue even remotely limited to gaming.I'm a scuba diver.  As Celebrim says, that's much like saying I play M&M.  I might only dive in the Carribean or only off the coast of North Carolina.  I might specifically do wreck dives or cave dives or fresh water dives.  I might prefer deep dives with short bottom times or I might rather dive in shallow rivers where you can spend a couple hours on one tank of air.  There is a vast diversity in the hobby and that's a good thing.It's true that I might not understand all the jargon that the cave diver guy is throwing around.  But his stories will likely be interesting and might even inspire me to try his favored aspect of the hobby.  We still have a ton in common simply by virtue of the fact that we find it fun to strap a metal tank to our backs and breathe underwater.If D&D (and RPG's in general) were not so diverse then I believe that this would be more of a niche hobby than it already is.  I still enjoy a good core rules D&D game sometimes.  But I'd have burned out on those a LONG time ago if I didn't have other settings, systems and genres to play.  I think that the flexibility and diversity of such games is a major benefit to the hobby.  Because without them I think a lot of us wouldn't even be involved in it at this point.</blockquote>