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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2901329" data-attributes="member: 158">Sounds more like the Robin Laws' "casual gamer" in a lot of ways (some people hate the Laws categories of "kicks," but I apologize if you do). In other words, she likes the group aspects and the "gamist" parts of the RPG (gimme a challenge, gimme a roll!) and she likes winning, even if it's the small victories. Anything paperwork related and she fuzzes out a bit - sound about right? I've had several "casual players" like this before, but most were young, and didn't know the rules. If there's a game, they'll be there, but most don't like really roleplay-heavy parts, or something where they're the center of the attention for a long time. The only problem is when someone else has to do their paperwork for them; it doesn't matter if it's a d6 system character, or a 3rd edition D&D character, if a participant doesn't have a ready character, it's a problem for everyone at the table, because it slows things down if something needs correcting. For such players, if it doesn't work out in the RPG game, it's best to institute some other kind of game night, "card game night" or similar, so that everybody can get together, but not feel left out. That's been our solution in the past, and to be honest, now that you remind me, I need to do something about  currently... (sorry to derail) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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