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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rev. Jesse" data-source="post: 2681610" data-attributes="member: 27673">I think you are looking at my statement in the wrong manner, Lost Soul.  Li Shenron said:My post was a response that statement.  I find it some what weird to think that people involved in the hobby for several years suddenly decided to role-play less, given that the hobby itself is role-playing.  I can accept that it is possible that there is less role-playing these days, but I think it must have been caused by "something" rather than just saying "the players... have changed."  Is 3e attracting a different sort of player than older editions?  I think that if the players are changing, or if current players are changing the way they play, then there must be some sort of catalyst for this change in the rules themselves.  What is it?Wombat said:Do you think that these games are inherently less focused on combat than 3e because they are setting based?  Perhaps because they have alternate forms of conflict built in whereas 3e basically only has monsters to fight and any other conflict is incumbent upon the DM to develop?-Jesse</blockquote>