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<blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 3608195" data-attributes="member: 15651">I will blame Tom The Dungeon Master.&nbsp; He introduced many of us in my town to the game.&nbsp; As we grew older and introduced others, his style influenced ours.&nbsp; We gamed at our local hobby store, there was probably about 30-40 regulars who came and went.&nbsp; We ended up with very similar rules and styles because we all ended up playing together and coming up with an agreed upon sense of fun.&nbsp; Honestly, most of my gaming up until the past year or so was still with some of those hometown people.&nbsp; Even when I went to college 400 miles away, a few ended up there as well and we gamed together.&nbsp; We had others in our gamng group, but which gamers did we gravitate to?&nbsp; The ones with similar tastes and styles to our own.The statements that someone &quot;never knew anyone who X&quot; is possibly a matter of selective memory.&nbsp; They may have met someone who used such a rule, but didn't like their game, left it and promptly forgot all about that time.&nbsp; The other possibility is that they never really got out of that smaller circle of gamers who had all been taught similar rules and styles like I had in my hometown.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thornir Alekeg, post: 3608195, member: 15651"] I will blame Tom The Dungeon Master. He introduced many of us in my town to the game. As we grew older and introduced others, his style influenced ours. We gamed at our local hobby store, there was probably about 30-40 regulars who came and went. We ended up with very similar rules and styles because we all ended up playing together and coming up with an agreed upon sense of fun. Honestly, most of my gaming up until the past year or so was still with some of those hometown people. Even when I went to college 400 miles away, a few ended up there as well and we gamed together. We had others in our gamng group, but which gamers did we gravitate to? The ones with similar tastes and styles to our own. The statements that someone "never knew anyone who X" is possibly a matter of selective memory. They may have met someone who used such a rule, but didn't like their game, left it and promptly forgot all about that time. The other possibility is that they never really got out of that smaller circle of gamers who had all been taught similar rules and styles like I had in my hometown. [/QUOTE]

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