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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1649821" data-attributes="member: 813">Anyone who posts on a RPG message board daily should know why people are concerned about population densities. It's the varying types of gamers explanation. Some people play RPGs for the Role Play. Some play for the Game aspect of playing.  Other players enjoy the Simulation aspects of the game. While this is not to say that you must plant yourself in only one of these 3 camps, the fact is that some players have a heavy skew toward the Simulation camp. Whenever a statistic surfaces in a game, if it doesn't match their view of how the game should act as a Simulation of reality, it takes them out of game -- they can no longer suspend their disbelief. Just because your need for Simulation is less than other players' need for Simulation doesn't invalidate the sense of annoyance a bad statistic gives them.Quite frankly I'm appalled at the level of intolerance toward how some gamers feel in this thread. If I think there are too many harpies in Eberron, I'm entitled to that opinion. Don't tell me to get over it or just change it. If it bugs me, I am bugged. I know I can ignore it or change it. That doesn't stop it from bugging me.I'm particularly shocked by the number RPG authors/creators on this thread who discount the Simulationist's view in their posts. And I'm not referring to Keith here. Someone else at WotC should have been in charge of number crunching.Okay, I'll stop with the Theory of Role-Playing stuff, now.</blockquote>

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