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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1852539" data-attributes="member: 158">Whimsical, only mods can delete posts, but if you edit it to say "double post" or similar, a mod will usually come along and clean it up.To the question above,Strangely, I'd have to say, "no." The only time I've ever had that feeling is someone who does something drastically different - LARPing while sharing blood, or those confuse their character's personality, that sort of thing. Everyone else I've ever met, I've ever gamed with, we played the same way - we rolled dice, we roleplayed, we laughed, we talked, we shared victuals before, or after, or sometimes during, and most of the time, we beat the bad guy. The only real difference is in what proportion we did those things. Some fight more, some clown around more, some roleplay more. But never in an extent where I've said, "we're playing something totally different, here." Heck, at a seminar in 1999, I listened to Gary Gygax talk about his early groups of D&D diehards. Good God, it was like listening to my group the previous 12 years! That experience made me feel like I was roleplaying "the right way" more so than any experience I've ever had to date.Someone a looooong time ago on these forums said words of wisdom: "We're all just rolling dice, here." And it's stuck with me ever since.Fiction influences my playing? Not so much. I got into D&D long before I was really into fantasy fiction. My first Fant. Fict. was Dragonlance, believe it or not.Electronic games influence my playing? Almost none. Again, count the early D&D influence on computer games, rather than vice versa.History influences my playing? Very much, for I find much fodder in the past for adventures and flavor.Wargaming influences my playing? Only on the most superficial level, and moreso lately since minis were more integrated. I came to the game between the wargame stage and the White Wolf stage, so I was more influenced by...NEW CATEGORY: Movies and TV influenced and stil does influence me greatly. Movies like Conan, cartoons like Johnny Quest, and Star Wars paint me a bbetter picture of my gaming sessions. I look for the cool scenario or visual, the powerful hook, or the clear-cut characterizations to frame my DMing within.</blockquote>

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