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<blockquote data-quote="Warpiglet-7" data-source="post: 9270574" data-attributes="member: 7025282"><p>I will be a dissenting voice in a pleasant thread.</p><p></p><p>I have seen a few recent threads suggesting it is imperative that a player needs to play multiple rpgs for their “development” and in one case mental well being! I think the person suggesting that has more to worry about than the single game gamer <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>I just think it doesn’t matter unless you are unsatisfied. I dabbled in perhaps 7-8 games as a teen and maybe double or triple that counting one off cons. I am not sure how formative any of that really was.</p><p></p><p>That said I am a poly gamer of sorts. I play online shooters and enjoyed plenty of games with plastic soldiers of all sorts. I have several nice tactical level infantry games. Hell I have a room full of boardgames. </p><p></p><p>I have miniature games and have spent time painting minis and making terrain. Battletech was fun…would not mind giving it a go again.</p><p></p><p>In the end though, I play D&D. I like the fiction and archetypes. My friends and I have had games together 35 years ago or more and still enjoy it. It’s an established language but also a world we like to explore.</p><p></p><p>We veered off briefly into others but the juice has never been worth the squeeze. I have zero interest in story games, just none at all. I cannot fathom spending the precious few hours we can muster as a group to delve into a system to see if we like it while we could be rolling d20s and yelling and high fiving.</p><p></p><p>I don’t think trying new and varied RPGs is bad in any way if you have the time. If I go to Gen con again I might try some new ones out. </p><p></p><p>But I don’t think a gamer is deficient or stunted if they only a particular game, whatever it is. My venturing out has been “fine” but not exactly formative. A lot of fine one offs.</p><p></p><p>And the crux for me is really time. Of all the expensive board and war games I own, I have been lucky to set all of them up and play them solo and to play again means relearning the rules. I have a few like war of the ring or battlelore 1e I would play again. But many collect dust. Was my time learning them (not to mention money spent) worth it?</p><p></p><p>I am not so sure. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷" title="Person shrugging :person_shrugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warpiglet-7, post: 9270574, member: 7025282"] I will be a dissenting voice in a pleasant thread. I have seen a few recent threads suggesting it is imperative that a player needs to play multiple rpgs for their “development” and in one case mental well being! I think the person suggesting that has more to worry about than the single game gamer ;) I just think it doesn’t matter unless you are unsatisfied. I dabbled in perhaps 7-8 games as a teen and maybe double or triple that counting one off cons. I am not sure how formative any of that really was. That said I am a poly gamer of sorts. I play online shooters and enjoyed plenty of games with plastic soldiers of all sorts. I have several nice tactical level infantry games. Hell I have a room full of boardgames. I have miniature games and have spent time painting minis and making terrain. Battletech was fun…would not mind giving it a go again. In the end though, I play D&D. I like the fiction and archetypes. My friends and I have had games together 35 years ago or more and still enjoy it. It’s an established language but also a world we like to explore. We veered off briefly into others but the juice has never been worth the squeeze. I have zero interest in story games, just none at all. I cannot fathom spending the precious few hours we can muster as a group to delve into a system to see if we like it while we could be rolling d20s and yelling and high fiving. I don’t think trying new and varied RPGs is bad in any way if you have the time. If I go to Gen con again I might try some new ones out. But I don’t think a gamer is deficient or stunted if they only a particular game, whatever it is. My venturing out has been “fine” but not exactly formative. A lot of fine one offs. And the crux for me is really time. Of all the expensive board and war games I own, I have been lucky to set all of them up and play them solo and to play again means relearning the rules. I have a few like war of the ring or battlelore 1e I would play again. But many collect dust. Was my time learning them (not to mention money spent) worth it? I am not so sure. 🤷 [/QUOTE]
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