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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1255533" data-attributes="member: 4441">Hmm...  I have my own conceptions of what a typical computer gamer is like, most of which I know are probably wrong, but here's my thinking for your perusal anyway.Computer gamers are much more focused on the slaying of monsters and the aquisition of treasure that pen and paper gamers.Computer gamers focus on the increase of their character's combat ability to the exclusion of other factors.Computer gamers tend to deal with encounters in one way, fighting their way through them.  Diplomacy, negotiations, and trickery are harder to come by in computer games and it shows when they play pen and paper RPGs.Computer gamers tend to have a disregard for NPCs, as in computer games NPCs are either unkillable plot devices or sources that give you what you want no matter how rude you are.</blockquote>