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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5981216" data-attributes="member: 2205">Find out who in your group is like-minded, and try to meet some other people that are also like-minded, and start up a group based deliberately on the type of playstyle that you want to employ.  Powergamers gonna powergame.  If you don't like that kind of play, it's probably best to not play with them.  I was literally shocked a few years back when I got more serious about roleplaying again (because I had finished grad school, started working, and generally had more time and money than I had had previously) when I realized how good gaming could be if you're playing with the right people.It took me a little while to find a group that was more like-minded than not, and a few folks who I otherwise quite like as people, we had to jointly recognize that we just fundamentally enjoyed the game too differently for either of us to ever really have a great time in each other's games... but hey, it wasn't anything personal.  We remain friends, we just don't game in the same group anymore.</blockquote>