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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 8871601" data-attributes="member: 725"><p>If people 'judge' inexperienced people by their own experienced experiences, then they are fools! And I'm sure there are many of those. But often in these situations people are either looking for a certain skill set with 'enough' experience or 'potential'. See it as work, it is foolish to expect someone just out of school to have 5 years of experience in skills xyz (and still people ask for that). And that is why so many young people are feeling prosecuted, as they lack that experience and have no way to get that experience NOW... What you could look for is 'potential' in inexperienced players, a certain 'quality' in players... And both in work and running RPGs, you need to have the skills to draw that potential out, while having a ton of patience. Many DMs/GMs do not have that skill and/or patience to ever do that and that often gets blamed on the inexperienced players, we've all seen those folks here on the forums... What people tend to forget that while you might have experience in playing RPGs (both as a player and DM/GM), you might just be as inexperienced in teaching young people and need to learn as well... Many people are way to proud to recongnize those shortcomings in themselves and would never accept that from a couple of 'no-good' kids (and often not from anyone else either)...</p><p></p><p>The comparison between professional sports and, what you call social competition, is horribly skewed. As most people have not the build/mind or the talent for professional sports, thus they will never reach that level. While RPGs in general is a sort of social competition. Comparing that to a professional streamer/actor group on Youtube/Twitch would be completely unrealistic, as most of the RPG players will never ever get to that level of acting. Not everyone is created equally, so some will never become 'good' at RPGs, and that can be perfectly alright when everyone is having fun!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 8871601, member: 725"] If people 'judge' inexperienced people by their own experienced experiences, then they are fools! And I'm sure there are many of those. But often in these situations people are either looking for a certain skill set with 'enough' experience or 'potential'. See it as work, it is foolish to expect someone just out of school to have 5 years of experience in skills xyz (and still people ask for that). And that is why so many young people are feeling prosecuted, as they lack that experience and have no way to get that experience NOW... What you could look for is 'potential' in inexperienced players, a certain 'quality' in players... And both in work and running RPGs, you need to have the skills to draw that potential out, while having a ton of patience. Many DMs/GMs do not have that skill and/or patience to ever do that and that often gets blamed on the inexperienced players, we've all seen those folks here on the forums... What people tend to forget that while you might have experience in playing RPGs (both as a player and DM/GM), you might just be as inexperienced in teaching young people and need to learn as well... Many people are way to proud to recongnize those shortcomings in themselves and would never accept that from a couple of 'no-good' kids (and often not from anyone else either)... The comparison between professional sports and, what you call social competition, is horribly skewed. As most people have not the build/mind or the talent for professional sports, thus they will never reach that level. While RPGs in general is a sort of social competition. Comparing that to a professional streamer/actor group on Youtube/Twitch would be completely unrealistic, as most of the RPG players will never ever get to that level of acting. Not everyone is created equally, so some will never become 'good' at RPGs, and that can be perfectly alright when everyone is having fun! [/QUOTE]
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