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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 2785505" data-attributes="member: 426">I have seen many different types of gamers and gaming groups in the last 25 yars.  Some gamers I have meet are socially inept; others were socially skilled.  I find it very hard to make broad generalizations about gamers based on my experiences.  I have known confident, kind and mature people who are gamers as well as those who lack confidence, can be cruel, and immature.True, gaming groups can have some fairly intense people in them.  So can groups of sports fans, hobbyists of any sort, and many other groups.  Some portion of the people in these groups may have poor social skills.  This may be exagerrated if people in the group have little in common besides their hobby to discuss or to form the basis of relationships.Rounser, you do make some good points on brain studies.  I would argue that we still have much to learn about the human brain and how it functions.  So, perhaps it is not too surprising that communications seems to be at the heart of many problems in gaming groups.  We often find it difficult ot understand each other.  However, like Chimera, we can set standards for what we will accept in gaming groups and those we game with.  For example, two years back I left a gaming group that I had been part of for many years in different incarnations.  Some of the people wanted different things in their games than what I wanted.  As I felt that my opinions did not matter to many in the group, I left.  I have found some other groups since then.  I think a key thing to ask about any gaming group is what everyone wants and are those desiers somewhat compatable with each other.</blockquote>

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