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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8201020" data-attributes="member: 7016699">The quoted bit wasn't so much about system not mattering (or mattering) as it was about why one might intentionally choose a system someone else thinks of as inferior. Specifically, the reasons I gave are pretty much my reasons for choosing to play D&amp;D 5E--because the &quot;system matters&quot; conversation almost always seems to be about what D&amp;D can and cannot do. About the only thing missing is that I wanted to game with new people, and I wanted to game at a FLGS, so the most-popular game (which I happen to like well enough) is, I think, a reasonable and rational choice.And I have had the experience of playing different games with the same people at the table, and the experience around the table being roughly the same. I don't know that they were quite so different from each other as the games you played, but they were pretty far-ranging. Part of it was that the guy who was the almost-constant GM at that table had ... tendencies, so the fiction tended to end up in similar shapes and places. Do I think your experience, as you described it, is possible? I absolutely do, and I don't doubt for a moment you experienced it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8201020, member: 7016699"] The quoted bit wasn't so much about system not mattering (or mattering) as it was about why one might intentionally choose a system someone else thinks of as inferior. Specifically, the reasons I gave are pretty much my reasons for choosing to play D&D 5E--because the "system matters" conversation almost always seems to be about what D&D can and cannot do. About the only thing missing is that I wanted to game with new people, and I wanted to game at a FLGS, so the most-popular game (which I happen to like well enough) is, I think, a reasonable and rational choice. And I have had the experience of playing different games with the same people at the table, and the experience around the table being roughly the same. I don't know that they were quite so different from each other as the games you played, but they were pretty far-ranging. Part of it was that the guy who was the almost-constant GM at that table had ... tendencies, so the fiction tended to end up in similar shapes and places. Do I think your experience, as you described it, is possible? I absolutely do, and I don't doubt for a moment you experienced it. [/QUOTE]

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