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<blockquote data-quote="loverdrive" data-source="post: 8445685" data-attributes="member: 7027139">And these people probably don't fancy themselves as salsa affectionados or treat their love for spaghetti as a part of their identity.This wasn't what I was getting at. I don't care if their taste is good or bad or ugly.In order to be a hip-hop fan and not just a dude who sometimes listens to hip-hop because that's what his weird friend who carries a BT speaker with them all the time plays at house parties, one needs to know what they like.One can be a D&amp;D fan, wear a D20 necklace and a wear this label as an identity without knowing about other games.It's at least more than what I can count with fingers of one hand. I have only nine grades of education, I can't count. One, two, three, four, five, many!Jokes aside, just being aware that game X exists and experiencing it are two vastly different things.I have no questions for people who like D&amp;D specifically. I like my 5E, I like my B/X and I'm the gal who just can't shut her mouth about other games.It's those who like something that D&amp;D doesn't really deliver and don't care for things it excels at, yet they still chew this cactus, I have questions for.If someone doesn't like initiative-based combat with minis, doesn't care for charop and your damage output, constantly fudges dice to keep PCs and BBEGs from dying in an anticlimactic way, tries to &quot;fix&quot; totally unrealistic HP progression with houserules and yet still play 5E, I can't explain it by any other reason that they don't know any better.I was like that many years ago. I just couldn't understand why in the nine hells would I need to learn a new system, if I spent so much time learning 3.5E and could do absolutely anything with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="loverdrive, post: 8445685, member: 7027139"] And these people probably don't fancy themselves as salsa affectionados or treat their love for spaghetti as a part of their identity. This wasn't what I was getting at. I don't care if their taste is good or bad or ugly. In order to be a hip-hop [I]fan[/I] and not just a dude who sometimes listens to hip-hop because that's what his weird friend who carries a BT speaker with them all the time plays at house parties, one needs to know what they like. One can be a D&D fan, wear a D20 necklace and a wear this label as an identity without knowing about other games. It's at least more than what I can count with fingers of one hand. I have only nine grades of education, I can't count. One, two, three, four, five, many! Jokes aside, just being aware that game X exists and experiencing it are two vastly different things. I have no questions for people who like D&D specifically. I like my 5E, I like my B/X and I'm the gal who just can't shut her mouth about other games. It's those who like something that D&D doesn't really deliver and don't care for things it excels at, yet they still chew this cactus, I have questions for. If someone doesn't like initiative-based combat with minis, doesn't care for charop and your damage output, constantly fudges dice to keep PCs and BBEGs from dying in an anticlimactic way, tries to "fix" totally unrealistic HP progression with houserules and yet still play 5E, I can't explain it by any other reason that they don't know any better. I was like that many years ago. I just couldn't understand why in the nine hells would I need to learn a new system, if I spent so much time learning 3.5E and could do absolutely anything with it. [/QUOTE]

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