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OVERLY CRITICAL: Sucking the joy out of the game.
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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7877558" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Not sure exactly what you are being critical about...</p><p></p><p>If you find yourself complaining all the time about rule X being "wrong", rule Y "should be like this instead", then the short answer is YES, you do have a problem, but it's the same problem as thousands of other gamers. For some reasons, roleplay games are unique in this aspect, that A LOT of people feel entitled since day 1 to criticize the rules, as if they knew better how the game should have been. But the simple reality is that any game is just a game, and the best to enjoy it is to accept it and go along with it, at least until you've played it quite long enough... Later on, you can change the rules into something else, but the primary reason to do so should be because you want to try something different, rather than pretending to "fix" it. Now the interesting question is: why the same people do not try to change chess or poker? If you don't like chess, you just don't play chess, right? So if you don't like D&D 5e, why don't you just try another RPG? Perhaps it's the idea that the game itself tells you that you <em>can</em> change it, that immediately attracts people who are more interested in <em>designing </em>games rather than <em>playing</em> them. In fact, I suspect that many who post thousands of house rules in a forum never actually play the game, their interest is in exercising game design. That's not a bad thing, but maybe they should focus on that, and realize that they're not really that interested in playing.</p><p></p><p>Differently, if you are all the time criticizing what your DM is doing, how (s)he is handling in-game situations as well as OoC dynamics, it's more complicated. Does it happen with a single DM or with many/all of them? Are you also over-critical of what other people do in other social contexts (e.g. work) or only gaming? You are entitled to have an "ideal way of DMing" in mind of course, but considering that you are yourself telling that <em>you </em>are "ruining the game", then you need to do something about it... Ask yourself, is it <em>really</em> what your DM does, or is it <em>your judgement</em> of what (s)he does that spoils your fun? If you find the answer to be the first, I am afraid you should just quit playing with that DM, but if it's the second, then you need to find a way to change the way you think about the game while playing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7877558, member: 1465"] Not sure exactly what you are being critical about... If you find yourself complaining all the time about rule X being "wrong", rule Y "should be like this instead", then the short answer is YES, you do have a problem, but it's the same problem as thousands of other gamers. For some reasons, roleplay games are unique in this aspect, that A LOT of people feel entitled since day 1 to criticize the rules, as if they knew better how the game should have been. But the simple reality is that any game is just a game, and the best to enjoy it is to accept it and go along with it, at least until you've played it quite long enough... Later on, you can change the rules into something else, but the primary reason to do so should be because you want to try something different, rather than pretending to "fix" it. Now the interesting question is: why the same people do not try to change chess or poker? If you don't like chess, you just don't play chess, right? So if you don't like D&D 5e, why don't you just try another RPG? Perhaps it's the idea that the game itself tells you that you [I]can[/I] change it, that immediately attracts people who are more interested in [I]designing [/I]games rather than [I]playing[/I] them. In fact, I suspect that many who post thousands of house rules in a forum never actually play the game, their interest is in exercising game design. That's not a bad thing, but maybe they should focus on that, and realize that they're not really that interested in playing. Differently, if you are all the time criticizing what your DM is doing, how (s)he is handling in-game situations as well as OoC dynamics, it's more complicated. Does it happen with a single DM or with many/all of them? Are you also over-critical of what other people do in other social contexts (e.g. work) or only gaming? You are entitled to have an "ideal way of DMing" in mind of course, but considering that you are yourself telling that [I]you [/I]are "ruining the game", then you need to do something about it... Ask yourself, is it [I]really[/I] what your DM does, or is it [I]your judgement[/I] of what (s)he does that spoils your fun? If you find the answer to be the first, I am afraid you should just quit playing with that DM, but if it's the second, then you need to find a way to change the way you think about the game while playing. [/QUOTE]
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