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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9672247" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>I once got invited to a game by a friend I met playing Magic the Gathering. Don’t remember the system, but it’s not really relevant. Anyway, I and two of the three other players built fairly combat-focused characters - we had two martial artist type characters and one barbarian-esque Amazon warrior. The other guy wanted to play a merchant and spent all of his character building resources on social and status-related stuff. Then he proceeded to entirely monopolize the DM’s time managing his business. The rest of us were kind of at a loss, wanting to actually do some kind of adventure, while the one dude who decided he’d rather be playing some kind of management sim game was the only one driving the “action” for some reason. It was really weird and boring, and the circumstances surrounding me getting invited were already a bit uncomfortable for out of game reasons, so I never went back. But, I did learn from that experience that yes, people who want a “sandbox” so they can goof around exchanging imaginary goods and services for imaginary money instead of going on imaginary adventures do really exist. Until then I had assumed they were a myth.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 9672247, member: 6779196"] I once got invited to a game by a friend I met playing Magic the Gathering. Don’t remember the system, but it’s not really relevant. Anyway, I and two of the three other players built fairly combat-focused characters - we had two martial artist type characters and one barbarian-esque Amazon warrior. The other guy wanted to play a merchant and spent all of his character building resources on social and status-related stuff. Then he proceeded to entirely monopolize the DM’s time managing his business. The rest of us were kind of at a loss, wanting to actually do some kind of adventure, while the one dude who decided he’d rather be playing some kind of management sim game was the only one driving the “action” for some reason. It was really weird and boring, and the circumstances surrounding me getting invited were already a bit uncomfortable for out of game reasons, so I never went back. But, I did learn from that experience that yes, people who want a “sandbox” so they can goof around exchanging imaginary goods and services for imaginary money instead of going on imaginary adventures do really exist. Until then I had assumed they were a myth. [/QUOTE]

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