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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8957999" data-attributes="member: 82106">So, the upshot of all this, combined with some of the discussion we had the other day, kind of tells me what is going on: You and I and others I won't care to list, are interested in the development of our characters in human terms, and we enjoy that. We imagine fantastic adventures (or whatever) as a way to experience interesting/fantastic things and exercise our imaginations, but mostly we USE those things to feed into character explicating situations.It appears that other people, whom we seem to not see eye-to-eye with often, don't really have an interest in that kind of development at all. They may well depict situations and events which would be character defining, but at some essential level the game is 'character-as-pawn', and thus the most weighty threat which can exist in the game is having your pawn taken away, especially after it has reached the most difficult to attain states in the game (IE a high level D&D PC equipped with the most iconic gear). Now, I don't really believe there's some entirely hard and fast division between the two groups, and many people may be happy playing either way, but it does strike me that pawn-stance-play is a bit more lightweight. It also admits of a much more directed and curated experience. I think its popular because it is simply easy to go buy a module and let someone basically describe what's in it and do some adjudication. The other participants can have fun putting some surface characterization on their PCs and figuring out how to beat the module. Game companies love it, its easy to write material for, mostly everyone is happy, except that damned [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER], who really should just quit complaining and go back to his cave! My conclusion, Doc, you are just a big spoil sport! <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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