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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8359127" data-attributes="member: 7026617">I think, and note what I'm saying here, in one respect they're not wrong; people who've played a variety of games do have the right to say they have a slightly broader perspective on mechanics, what works in what circumstances, and why.&nbsp; That's kind of inevitable from knowing other systems, not only theoretically but &quot;on the ground&quot; as it were.What that doesn't say is that they have a right to tell people what to enjoy.&nbsp; Nor to project on others their assumptions that the other person is kidding themself.But the latter doesn't tell me I should stop telling people they seem to be using a wrench as a hammer in some cases.(Though the point in the post I was replying to was to note that there's a class of player/GM who's outside this whole&nbsp; discussion; they aren't really so much saying D&amp;D is what they prefer as saying its all they've known and it has served them well enough they haven't been motivated to do the heavy lifting to try anything else.&nbsp; If they did, they might well decide, like you, D&amp;D was really what they did want, or like many other people, that' they'd just been getting by with it.&nbsp; There's just no way to say because their situation hasn't exposed them to anything else enough to try.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8359127, member: 7026617"] I think, and note what I'm saying here, in one respect they're not wrong; people who've played a variety of games do have the right to say they have a slightly broader perspective on mechanics, what works in what circumstances, and why. That's kind of inevitable from knowing other systems, not only theoretically but "on the ground" as it were. What that doesn't say is that they have a right to tell people what to enjoy. Nor to project on others their assumptions that the other person is kidding themself. But the latter doesn't tell me I should stop telling people they seem to be using a wrench as a hammer in some cases. (Though the point in the post I was replying to was to note that there's a class of player/GM who's outside this whole discussion; they aren't really so much saying D&D is what they prefer as saying its all they've known and it has served them well enough they haven't been motivated to do the heavy lifting to try anything else. If they did, they might well decide, like you, D&D was really what they did want, or like many other people, that' they'd just been getting by with it. There's just no way to say because their situation hasn't exposed them to anything else enough to try.) [/QUOTE]

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