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<blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 5134202" data-attributes="member: 14197">I haven't seen anyone state that you can't play the game in the style that you want.&nbsp; If anything, most people say things like &quot;it's great if you like running your games like that, but my group prefers a different style&quot;&nbsp; or &quot;I've played straight sandboxes and I have played more linear games, but mostly our game is somewhere in between&quot; or &quot;my play experience differs from yours&quot;.None of these statements say that you aren't playing the game correctly, but calling others bass-ackward because they do things differently doesn't help anything.But just because you play it more in accordance with the way Gary played doesn't mean that your style of playing AD&amp;D is truer.&nbsp; This is looking more like a clash of different playstyles, and even more like a clash of current playstyles.In my opinion, everyone is playing the game the right way, as long as they are enjoying themselves, the group is engaged, and there's adventure and laughter and tension and challenge.&nbsp; When the session is over and players chat over email or forums, or if a player calls a DM about some new thing for their character, then the players/DM are doing something right.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="catsclaw227, post: 5134202, member: 14197"] I haven't seen anyone state that you can't play the game in the style that you want. If anything, most people say things like "it's great if you like running your games like that, but my group prefers a different style" or "I've played straight sandboxes and I have played more linear games, but mostly our game is somewhere in between" or "my play experience differs from yours". None of these statements say that you aren't playing the game correctly, but calling others bass-ackward because they do things differently doesn't help anything. But just because you play it more in accordance with the way Gary played doesn't mean that your style of playing AD&D is [I]truer[/I]. This is looking more like a clash of different playstyles, and even more like a clash of [I]current[/I] playstyles. In my opinion, everyone is playing the game the right way, as long as they are enjoying themselves, the group is engaged, and there's adventure and laughter and tension and challenge. When the session is over and players chat over email or forums, or if a player calls a DM about some new thing for their character, then the players/DM are doing something right. [/QUOTE]

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