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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 7729612" data-attributes="member: 3887">Another great thing about this proliferation of online gaming to watch is we get to see how many different ways the game is played. I'm okay with the fact *some* people might be PLAYING D&amp;D WRONG. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Why last night I stumbled across what I think was Girls, Guts, and Glory while I was trying to find Force Grey on the PS4 Twitch app -- which is possibly not the platform a man nearing 50 should be using or admit to using. It sounded like the PCs were in some sort of spa, possibly gossiping while high on something analogous to Ecstasy (or maybe this was just their personalities). And I was like &quot;Wow, what a weird things to be doing in a D&amp;D... wait a minute.... this could be MY GROUP!&quot;. One of he most quoted scenes from my old 3e campaign took place at a hotel restaurant brunch and I introduced a magical Ecstasy-analogue way back in a 1990s 2e campaign. It's nice to know me &amp; my group aren't alone!edit: it's also nice that by their very nature, the popular gaming streams are going to focus on the characters &amp; their hijinks, not on technical rules issues or SYSTEM MATTERS or articulating positions on simulationism or any of the other popular fodder that gets discussed in places like this. Not that I'm dissing conversations about any of those things -- but honestly, they're probably not appealing to people curious about the game, and they're not the reasons we got involved in the hobby in the first place.We learned to love arguments about the nature of hit points later...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 7729612, member: 3887"] Another great thing about this proliferation of online gaming to watch is we get to see how many different ways the game is played. I'm okay with the fact *some* people might be PLAYING D&D WRONG. :) Why last night I stumbled across what I think was Girls, Guts, and Glory while I was trying to find Force Grey on the PS4 Twitch app -- which is possibly not the platform a man nearing 50 should be using or admit to using. It sounded like the PCs were in some sort of spa, possibly gossiping while high on something analogous to Ecstasy (or maybe this was just their personalities). And I was like "Wow, what a weird things to be doing in a D&D... wait a minute.... this could be MY GROUP!". One of he most quoted scenes from my old 3e campaign took place at a hotel restaurant brunch and I introduced a magical Ecstasy-analogue way back in a 1990s 2e campaign. It's nice to know me & my group aren't alone! edit: it's also nice that by their very nature, the popular gaming streams are going to focus on the characters & their hijinks, not on technical rules issues or SYSTEM MATTERS or articulating positions on simulationism or any of the other popular fodder that gets discussed in places like this. Not that I'm dissing conversations about any of those things -- but honestly, they're probably not appealing to people curious about the game, and they're not the reasons we got involved in the hobby in the first place. We learned to love arguments about the nature of hit points later... [/QUOTE]

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