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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arashi Ravenblade" data-source="post: 2717604" data-attributes="member: 15630">I say it was negative. New players  and new DM's who grew up with these games tend to not just get inpsiration but completly rip them off. I for one while not being that old (im only 23) didnt grow up with video games i didnt have a playstation until i was in the 9th grade and i got a PS2 during 2001 and an x-box in 2003, i never played a Final Fantasy game until 2001 and didnt play part 7 until 2003, i had only played 10 and 9 (which after playing those 2 first i wonder what the big todo is about 7 but personal tastes i guess). Thing is when i started to DM D&D specifically and exclusivly from my friends i didnt have anything to draw upon, i had never read a D&D novel or played any of it's video games until Baldurs Gate for PS2 came out. Now since then i have become a Video Game fiend but it doesnt really affect me, aside from the Forgotten Realms games, which in my Campaign are canon.Point is that younger gamers who grew up on video games dont have very original characters or if they DM it bears a striking resemblence to a video game you played. That goes for people my age too who grew up with every system along the way, im playing in a game right now that while it's claimed as original seems relativly close to Resident Evil. Something that scourger mentioned reminds me that also alot of player expect or even demand that the DM warn them of a potentially fatal encounter so they can save. UM...NO you screw up you Die, you get raised or make another character. That kind of attitude has come from the " I grew up on video games generation." Guovg players i guess.Now dont get me wrong this isnt entirly bad, sometimes it is the only way a new palyer who has never played tabletop can relate and im tolerant in that regard, but when you have played and played and played and you still are playing Leon or Cloud or Chrono or Dante or whatever else you think is cool then im sorry but you lack imagination.</blockquote>

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