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<blockquote data-quote="the joe" data-source="post: 763274" data-attributes="member: 7415">I'm not sure if anyone has the same problem as I, but I really need to vent. My gaming group meets regularly sunday afternoons, and we have been doing so for almost seven months. During these seven months we have been running two concurrent campaigns (3E D&amp;D), both very combat intensive. Don't get me wrong, i like to bash orcs as well as the next guy. But what really bothers me is that neither of these campaigns needed to be combat intensive. I would wager that 40% of our fights could've have been avoided by simply stealthing or better yet using a bit of diplomacy. Normally I would be concerned with the excess combat, my concern is when the careless actions jepordize the rest of the parties characters.It frustrates me to no end that the only part of a character my fellow gamers focus on is their sheer combat prowess. Dungeons and Dragons is a ROLE playing game after all. I could be wrong, but isn't the purpose of role playing to create a persona and act as he/she would, not just beat the hell out of whatever crosses your path. I've aired my greivance before the DM and he agrees with me. The other players, however, do not. Perhaps it is a question of age. I am seventeen, and the ages of the other members of my group vary from 16 to 18. Any Suggestions?-Joe Volzer</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the joe, post: 763274, member: 7415"] I'm not sure if anyone has the same problem as I, but I really need to vent. My gaming group meets regularly sunday afternoons, and we have been doing so for almost seven months. During these seven months we have been running two concurrent campaigns (3E D&D), both very combat intensive. Don't get me wrong, i like to bash orcs as well as the next guy. But what really bothers me is that neither of these campaigns needed to be combat intensive. I would wager that 40% of our fights could've have been avoided by simply stealthing or better yet using a bit of diplomacy. Normally I would be concerned with the excess combat, my concern is when the careless actions jepordize the rest of the parties characters. It frustrates me to no end that the only part of a character my fellow gamers focus on is their sheer combat prowess. Dungeons and Dragons is a ROLE playing game after all. I could be wrong, but isn't the purpose of role playing to create a persona and act as he/she would, not just beat the hell out of whatever crosses your path. I've aired my greivance before the DM and he agrees with me. The other players, however, do not. Perhaps it is a question of age. I am seventeen, and the ages of the other members of my group vary from 16 to 18. Any Suggestions? -Joe Volzer [/QUOTE]

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