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<blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 4392054" data-attributes="member: 10177">I always try to play a system. You won't hear me talk about HARP and other games, despite the fact that I own many books for them, because I haven't played them, only read them. If I say anything about them I will say somewhere in the post (unless my senility kicks in, like it all too often does) that I have only read the rules, not played.The only truly effective way to really know how the game plays is to play it. Reading it does not tell you how it works, playing it does. I find 3 good sessions allows for the game to show how it plays.I can read rules and get a good idea of how its going to play, but the only way to see how well the rules work together to create the game experience is to use them.Right now I am lukewarm to 4E. I have been lukewarm and even negative about a game after the second session, but then fall in love with it in the third session. I don't know why, but its usually by/in the third session it either clicks for me, or it doesn't. Even when after the second session I was certain I was going to always dislike the game. Like Shadowrun, the second edition. After the second session I was sure SR sucked and that I would never like it. Then in the third session I fell in love, and have loved SR ever since. With 4E being the best version yet, in my opinion.So I like to play every game for at least 3 sessions before I decide on a &quot;final opinion&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Treebore, post: 4392054, member: 10177"] I always try to play a system. You won't hear me talk about HARP and other games, despite the fact that I own many books for them, because I haven't played them, only read them. If I say anything about them I will say somewhere in the post (unless my senility kicks in, like it all too often does) that I have only read the rules, not played. The only truly effective way to really know how the game plays is to play it. Reading it does not tell you how it works, playing it does. I find 3 good sessions allows for the game to show how it plays. I can read rules and get a good idea of how its going to play, but the only way to see how well the rules work together to create the game experience is to use them. Right now I am lukewarm to 4E. I have been lukewarm and even negative about a game after the second session, but then fall in love with it in the third session. I don't know why, but its usually by/in the third session it either clicks for me, or it doesn't. Even when after the second session I was certain I was going to always dislike the game. Like Shadowrun, the second edition. After the second session I was sure SR sucked and that I would never like it. Then in the third session I fell in love, and have loved SR ever since. With 4E being the best version yet, in my opinion. So I like to play every game for at least 3 sessions before I decide on a "final opinion". [/QUOTE]

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