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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 5578052" data-attributes="member: 56189">I would say this accounts for 90% of the players I encounter. Not only that, but none of them seem to get that it's a team game that they're playing with other people. I honestly believe it's a symptom of video-gaming and a lack of social skills.Video games don't generally have consequences for stupid actions and promote and reward inherently selfish behaviour. Video games tend to focus on one character rather than a team and even team games tend to put one character (the player's) as being of primary importance. And in almost all video games, you kill it and you loot it.Then there's the fundamental selfishness that has them work only for their own character's benefit or amusement and often against other people in the party. These people don't seem to be able to see other people at the table as people. They seem not to comprehend that pissing off people's characters at the table tends to piss off the person playing it.I'd blame this on the younger generation but the fact is that I tend to put together a new group every few months and experience the same sorts of behaviours from people over and over and over again. Just once I'd like to put together a random group of people who sit down at the table and act like rational, intelligent and socially adept adults. Is that too much to ask?</blockquote>