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<blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6652587" data-attributes="member: 66434"><p>IMHO the MMO players can stay plugged into their computers for all I care. I'm not going to run WOW on the tabletop to cater to them. If they want a tabletop rpg game then they should expect play to be quite different from an MMO. A tabletop game is first and foremost a social gathering. Playing together and having fun as a group is more important than who has what bonuses to this or that. Obsessing over builds and mechanical capabilities as a thought excise is one thing, inflicting it on a table of players is another. The worst aspect of that behavior is that it has a very introverted focus. Players have fun during a rpg session in many different ways. Meeting mechanics based challenges with precisely defined character abilities is only one of them and may not be very important overall depending on the group. Helping everyone in the group have a good and memorable time is far more important than using a particular build or squeezing every drop of cheese out of the rules as possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ExploderWizard, post: 6652587, member: 66434"] IMHO the MMO players can stay plugged into their computers for all I care. I'm not going to run WOW on the tabletop to cater to them. If they want a tabletop rpg game then they should expect play to be quite different from an MMO. A tabletop game is first and foremost a social gathering. Playing together and having fun as a group is more important than who has what bonuses to this or that. Obsessing over builds and mechanical capabilities as a thought excise is one thing, inflicting it on a table of players is another. The worst aspect of that behavior is that it has a very introverted focus. Players have fun during a rpg session in many different ways. Meeting mechanics based challenges with precisely defined character abilities is only one of them and may not be very important overall depending on the group. Helping everyone in the group have a good and memorable time is far more important than using a particular build or squeezing every drop of cheese out of the rules as possible. [/QUOTE]
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