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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5607509" data-attributes="member: 10479">I wish you hadn't.  These are some of my closest peeps.  The generalizations and assumptions you make do, while admittedly meant to be off-the-cuff, come off as a bit rude.  I'll try to get back to this thread this weekend but wanted to chime in for a moment before this sort of analysis got much further.Pics never tell the full story and tend to get taken at these gamedays, that I helped found eleven years ago and have continued since three times a year at our host store Game Plus in Mount Prospect (by virtue of EN Worlders Buzz and thalmin), on the fly because the folks who grab pics are playing in games and take them when they can.  They might not always be as flattering as they might be but they are intended to document and hopefully retain some memmories of the ongoing events, such as they are.  That particular GM is a long time friend of mine, one of the kindest people I have known in my life, who invariably hopes to play in games run by others but always, when need arises, steps up to fill a GM chair as a back up and sometimes runs games when it appears the rosters are shorthanded (and also when he gets the itch to run instead of play).[MENTION=90161]A flannel shirt[/MENTION] - I get what you mean.  I'm a fan of both "styles" of gaming for different reasons.  I'm not sure the gameday photos totally capture the feel of both as strongly as I think you would like to portray each, particularly since gamedaying, if you will, at a gamestore has certain table conventions that probably don't translate well to home game environements where, I dare say, both styles of games likely take on a decidedly different tenor.</blockquote>

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