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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5634906" data-attributes="member: 73683">That's certainly one way to look at it, but I'm pretty sure a game exists whether or not someone is currently playing it.Someone can come along and tell you that Tetris is about transcending the realm of the physical and embracing the abstract, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we should take that viewpoint seriously as a way to examine how people in general tend to play Tetris.I think I've made it pretty clear that you can play D&D in whatever way you might care to, but I'm arguing that any one individual's preferred way of playing the game is less useful to us understanding how the game is played and what it is about than examining the thought process used to design the game would be. This is no different than <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=309227&page=3#post5633741" target="_blank">what Umbran said way back on page 3</a>.It strikes me as weird that anyone would consider this a controversial or even an offensive position.I'm sorry that you are offended by the point I'm trying to make, but I assure you that there is nothing intellectually dishonest about it. I'd appreciate it if these sorts of accusations were retired for the course of this thread.</blockquote>