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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 7609436" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>This is a central point for me. I don't really need the GM to do much to get me to imagine things. In fact, I get very quickly frustrated and bored with description. I think some of this may actually be a communication social style issue rather than just purely playstyle. There is an idea in sales that people can be divided into Drivers, Amiables, Expressives and Analyticals. You sculpt your sales pitch based on personality. An expressive and certain kinds of amiables would probably respond well to more descriptive sales pitches. Drivers would not. Drivers want you to get to the point. Analyticals want information. So they would want informative description. There is more to it than that. But I am basically a driver, with some amount of analytical when I've taken the tests they have for these things. My point I am trying to explain, that I think some people are having a hard time understanding, is not everyone processes information the same way, not everyone communicates in the same manner. And when it comes to GM descriptions our personalities and how we think shape how we respond to things. I have a very negative response to prose-like descriptions. And part of the reason is it annoys me and interrupts the flow. I am not a jerk about it. I don't berate a GM who does long descriptions. I just know I would rather we move things a long. I don't need your 3-5 sentence description to picture a tower.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 7609436, member: 85555"] This is a central point for me. I don't really need the GM to do much to get me to imagine things. In fact, I get very quickly frustrated and bored with description. I think some of this may actually be a communication social style issue rather than just purely playstyle. There is an idea in sales that people can be divided into Drivers, Amiables, Expressives and Analyticals. You sculpt your sales pitch based on personality. An expressive and certain kinds of amiables would probably respond well to more descriptive sales pitches. Drivers would not. Drivers want you to get to the point. Analyticals want information. So they would want informative description. There is more to it than that. But I am basically a driver, with some amount of analytical when I've taken the tests they have for these things. My point I am trying to explain, that I think some people are having a hard time understanding, is not everyone processes information the same way, not everyone communicates in the same manner. And when it comes to GM descriptions our personalities and how we think shape how we respond to things. I have a very negative response to prose-like descriptions. And part of the reason is it annoys me and interrupts the flow. I am not a jerk about it. I don't berate a GM who does long descriptions. I just know I would rather we move things a long. I don't need your 3-5 sentence description to picture a tower. [/QUOTE]
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