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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mathew_Freeman" data-source="post: 351896" data-attributes="member: 1846">Something that hasn't been mentioned before is the huge difference between childish  and childlike .Being childish means throwing food, having a temper tantrum when you don't get your way, wanting everything for yourself, not caring about anyone else etc etc etc. In an adult, this is normally regarded as a Bad Thing.Being childlike means that you still have a sense of wonder about the world, that you approach things like it was the first time you'd encountered them. To give a D&D example, it means still being scared of the dragon at first level when you've played D&D for ten years and you know your DM isn't going to kill your characters on the first session. It means remembering to be impressed when the cleric performs a miracle. It means enjoying the witty (and otherwise) repartee and comments that a good game throughs up.I don't think people that play in a childish manner are fun to play with. I think people that play in a childlike manner can be great gamers.However, on top of all this, I have to confess my first thought when flicking through the Epic Level Handbook was "Wow! A spell that can do 305d6 damage!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>