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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 411112" data-attributes="member: 812">greymarch:I have no words to express how diammetrically opposed our ideas of what Dungeons and Dragons should be are. I cannot even imagine how what you have described is even fun.But that's the great thing about this game -- it allows people with ideas of fun as drastically different as you and I to play with the same rules and still enjoy ourselves!Wow. I don't even understand what you do. Have you had the same DM all these years? I... Wow.It never occured to me that what your group does was even possible. I need to put this as a general question:Do other groups play like this? Am I a freak for finding this incredibly bizarre?No offense, greymarch -- I'm not saying that YOU are bizarre, or even that the way you play is bizarre, just that it is far beyond anything I ever conceived of. You have truly floored me. That doesn't happen very often. But it may be that your way is actually the more common way. I'm curious.I mean, I know that Forgotten Realms is popular, but I don't know a thing about it. I've never had the slightest interest and it surprises me that so many people use it. As a DM, my primary value in D&amp;D is getting to make up my own world. That's pretty much WHY I run games, so any campaign setting to me is nothing more than a bunch of material to plunder.Okay. Sorry, ran on for a little bit there. I'm babbling. I'll stop now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 411112, member: 812"] greymarch: I have no words to express how diammetrically opposed our ideas of what Dungeons and Dragons should be are. I cannot even imagine how what you have described is even fun. But that's the great thing about this game -- it allows people with ideas of fun as drastically different as you and I to play with the same rules and still enjoy ourselves! Wow. I don't even understand what you do. Have you had the same DM all these years? I... Wow. It never occured to me that what your group does was even possible. I need to put this as a general question: Do other groups play like this? Am I a freak for finding this incredibly bizarre? No offense, greymarch -- I'm not saying that YOU are bizarre, or even that the way you play is bizarre, just that it is far beyond anything I ever conceived of. You have truly floored me. That doesn't happen very often. But it may be that your way is actually the more common way. I'm curious. I mean, I know that Forgotten Realms is popular, but I don't know a thing about it. I've never had the slightest interest and it surprises me that so many people use it. As a DM, my primary value in D&D is getting to make up my own world. That's pretty much WHY I run games, so any campaign setting to me is nothing more than a bunch of material to plunder. Okay. Sorry, ran on for a little bit there. I'm babbling. I'll stop now. [/QUOTE]

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