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Message: <blockquote data-quote="preacher" data-source="post: 3697494" data-attributes="member: 36981">Ah, this is very different to my experience, and to some extent it explains where your questions are coming from.  <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=":)" /> I've never played with anyone who wasn't either already a friend, or was the friend of one of the other players. People get invited to games because we like each other, and then we get to find out what kind of gamers we are once things get going. Since we all know some or all of the other players before we sit down, we know what to expect from each other. I've been gaming with some of the people in my regular group for nearly 20 years, most of them for more than 10, and a couple for about a year. And some of us are roleplayers, some are powergamers, some both, but most of us just call ourselves "gamers".Maybe my understanding of the term "powergamer" in this thread is flawed. I believe that I roleplay fairly well, and I also sometimes "powergame" - in that I get what I can out of the character, using the rules available. However that doesn't stop me deliberately taking something sub-optimal if it has the right flavour, and I won't take something for its bonuses if it doesn't fit the concept. But it sounds as if many of you are using "powergame" to mean something a bit more narrow - squeezing every last drop out of the rules to have the best character possible. Which I see as exploiting the rules rather than playing within them, and isn't something I've really come up against.</blockquote>

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