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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tewligan" data-source="post: 249103" data-attributes="member: 2191">And what a nightmarish world you live in, Celebrim.  Your world is apparently also very melodramatic.You're right, Monte probably wouldn't want that kind of player at his table.  Therefore, he probably doesn't play with them.  You said that these "nearly autistic" gamers (nice, BTW) would be happy just rolling dice and doing damage.  If they're happy, why shouldn't they?  Not everyone is as committed to D&D as are the gamers who regularly read and post to gaming message boards.  Some people are happy to just chuck dice until they "kill" a set of numbers.  They don't want detailed cities, elaborate ecosystems, or lovingly developed cultures.  They want to kill a dragon, Thor, or any other badass they can match stats against.  I don't play like that, you don't play like that, and I doubt that anyone who reads this board with any regularity plays that way.  However, since those people a) have no effect on my game and b) are enjoying themselves, then more power to them.  The game I play in would probably bore them to tears - I just hope they aren't on some message board somewhere badmouthing me.EDIT:   Oops, I took a bit of a smartass tone at the beginning of my post.  Sorry - it was late and I was tired and cranky from a long weekend of gaming at Origins (oooh, poor me!)  Anyway, apologies to Celebrim - athough you are, of course, still wrong. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (Please note that I NEVER use smilies - you should consider yourself special, Celebrim.)</blockquote>

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