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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9746429" data-attributes="member: 6779196">In my experience, people often interpret other people advocating for their own play preferences as “other ways of playing suck.” Which tends to make people who like playing in other ways get defensive, and attack the way being advocating for, leading the conversation to escalate. In general, most people aren’t trying to attack your play preferences, and conversations tend to go more smoothly if you give people the benefit of the doubt. Moreover, don’t let the small handful of people who are actually being jerks about the way you like to play sour your perception of an entire playstyle and everyone who likes it.Yeah, I agree system mastery is a much better term for this.See, this is the kind of thing that tends to make people get defensive when they read it. Like, I assume this was genuinely your experience and you’re just expressing why it didn’t work for you personally, which is fine. But, anyone who likes His Majesty the Worm and that style of play is likely to read this and think you’re saying their preferred play style is inherently uninteresting and “just talking.” Better to talk up the merits of your preferred play style than to focus on what you dislike about another playstyle.</blockquote>