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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5901035" data-attributes="member: 3820">You keep describing something that's at odds with my own experience. Seriously, not all players are binary switches. They have settings between "Dead" and "Unstoppable." That said, if a player is distracted by a cell phone, I've usually been fine with it: we're all adults here, and friends to boot. Sometimes it's a guy talking to his kids that he won't see for another week. Sometimes someone's dealing with the fallout from a deceased relative. We don't get to play at the hours we did during college years, so everyone has a pretty high incentive to make the most out of the game time we get -- if something interrupts that, that's fine. Real life comes first. You keep using this "you" word in a way I find difficult to parse. I don't see it at all. I see players care deeply. My group isn't really the sort to do bragging rights by how high a level they got to. Level's just a pacing mechanism. Bragging rights come from things like "hell yes, I gave my minion a wish, it was awesome" or "holy crap you turned a minor player into an archenemy, way to go" or "hot damn we made it through the processional feast without anyone being murdered or petrified or even tossed into the bay!" Context-related stuff. It doesn't feel hollow, but really, I'm quite okay with it not being the sort of game that doesn't appeal to everyone. It wouldn't appeal to players like you describe, either, the sort pay zero attention to things and care only about life or death as a metric of value. Suits me; don't really want to play with people like that. As long as everyone around our table is having a blast and talking excitedly about the next session when we break up, that's all I require.</blockquote>

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