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<blockquote data-quote="Distracted DM" data-source="post: 9582876" data-attributes="member: 6894926">Your love is fresh- it hasn't been through decades of wear and tear, you're still enjoying and growing and learning things about it.But it's like lots of other hobbies: once you get to know its ins and outs you see how you'd like things better this way or that way, you'd do X differently, why did they do Y when Z would've obviously been a better choice.One difference is that TTRPG design is learned by playing or (moreso) running the game... So you can actually start hacking up the game to your liking, buuut there are lots of other games out there that might do what you want better, but your friends all want to still play DnD5e while you want to try out Pathfinder/Dungeon Crawl Classics/Into the Odd/whatever.Or maybe the company that makes the game makes some ethically questionable choices, you're more plugged into the design space so you care, but other more casual/new folk don't know or care (or they are just as knowledgeable and don't think the choices are bad).So those are some ways that you end up with people bashing on something you've just fallen in love with.Edit: I guess another thing is that some people will become DnD hobbyists, while others become TTRPG hobbyists. So the TTRPG folk got in on DnD, but explored elsewhere and don't get why the DnD people don't explore, whereas the DnD folk are perfectly happy where they are and don't get why others would want to leave.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Distracted DM, post: 9582876, member: 6894926"] Your love is fresh- it hasn't been through decades of wear and tear, you're still enjoying and growing and learning things about it. But it's like lots of other hobbies: once you get to know its ins and outs you see how you'd like things better this way or that way, you'd do X differently, why did they do Y when Z would've obviously been a better choice. One difference is that TTRPG design is learned by playing or (moreso) running the game... So you can actually start hacking up the game to your liking, buuut there are lots of other games out there that might do what you want better, but your friends all want to still play DnD5e while you want to try out Pathfinder/Dungeon Crawl Classics/Into the Odd/whatever. Or maybe the company that makes the game makes some ethically questionable choices, you're more plugged into the design space so you care, but other more casual/new folk don't know or care (or they are just as knowledgeable and don't think the choices are bad). So those are some ways that you end up with people bashing on something you've just fallen in love with. Edit: I guess another thing is that some people will become DnD hobbyists, while others become TTRPG hobbyists. So the TTRPG folk got in on DnD, but explored elsewhere and don't get why the DnD people don't explore, whereas the DnD folk are perfectly happy where they are and don't get why others would want to leave. [/QUOTE]

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