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<blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 9271599" data-attributes="member: 1008"><p>Encouraging convention play also tends to assume that the gaming is more important than the people you're gaming with -- a lot of meta-advice about gaming seems to come from people for whom the gaming is the thing, and who they're doing it with is a secondary concern.</p><p></p><p>I have zero interest in playing RPGs with random strangers, and while I might have fun should I choose to do so, I have plenty of things I'd much prefer to be doing with my time.</p><p></p><p>The actually leads into another point being overlooked in this discussion: even though I think we all probably agree that experiencing new things is, in general, a good thing, that doesn't mean there's any particular reason those new things need to include new RPGs. It's a pretty big reach to suggest that someone playing Traveller as their only RPG would gain more value out of also playing Shadowrun, Ars Magica and Dungeonworld, than they would if they used the time they're being encouraged to allocate to new RPGs to instead play a full campaign of World in Flames, read The Guns of August, and try out some new restaurants with friends.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SableWyvern, post: 9271599, member: 1008"] Encouraging convention play also tends to assume that the gaming is more important than the people you're gaming with -- a lot of meta-advice about gaming seems to come from people for whom the gaming is the thing, and who they're doing it with is a secondary concern. I have zero interest in playing RPGs with random strangers, and while I might have fun should I choose to do so, I have plenty of things I'd much prefer to be doing with my time. The actually leads into another point being overlooked in this discussion: even though I think we all probably agree that experiencing new things is, in general, a good thing, that doesn't mean there's any particular reason those new things need to include new RPGs. It's a pretty big reach to suggest that someone playing Traveller as their only RPG would gain more value out of also playing Shadowrun, Ars Magica and Dungeonworld, than they would if they used the time they're being encouraged to allocate to new RPGs to instead play a full campaign of World in Flames, read The Guns of August, and try out some new restaurants with friends. [/QUOTE]
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