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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9169158" data-attributes="member: 6785785">I agree this tends to be more true of D&amp;D. There’s a gamist element and a cooperative element that both run contrary to playing this way. You need to do your job. Don’t let the team down.I’ve found it much less true in other games. Generally, I think this is best supported by games that don’t really punish players for this kind of play. Or at least, don’t punish all the players. Some games give the players resources to mitigate consequences to some extent, so they are more free to be daring and or reckless.Some games also incentivize this kind of play with XP or similar rewards. I think this is a key element… what the game rewards is what the game is going to tend to be about. If it’s an XP for gold type system, then players are going to try and acquire gold efficiently. Same with XP for monsters… that’s what they’ll focus on.But if a game rewards taking risks or changing the setting or being true to character traits or flaws… then you may start to see some different behaviors.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 9169158, member: 6785785"] I agree this tends to be more true of D&D. There’s a gamist element and a cooperative element that both run contrary to playing this way. You need to do your job. Don’t let the team down. I’ve found it much less true in other games. Generally, I think this is best supported by games that don’t really punish players for this kind of play. Or at least, don’t punish all the players. Some games give the players resources to mitigate consequences to some extent, so they are more free to be daring and or reckless. Some games also incentivize this kind of play with XP or similar rewards. I think this is a key element… what the game rewards is what the game is going to tend to be about. If it’s an XP for gold type system, then players are going to try and acquire gold efficiently. Same with XP for monsters… that’s what they’ll focus on. But if a game rewards taking risks or changing the setting or being true to character traits or flaws… then you may start to see some different behaviors. [/QUOTE]

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