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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6152532" data-attributes="member: 59082">Interesting thoughts. I didn't do the survey, but I can say that I disagree with one of your hypotheses - that power-gaming and D&D are opposed to openness and imagination. I just think you're talking about two separate factors that may or may not correlate to a meaningful degree, sort of like liking apples and oranges; one can love both. Just as one can enjoy both power-gaming (to some extent at least) and be quite open and imaginative. It may have more to do with one's underlying root or primary impulse for gaming. Is it for ego gratification and as a surrogate for deficient self-esteem? Then they might tend to veer towards power-gaming and away from other elements of the RPG experience. But my point is that I think you need to be careful with making either/or distinctions or opposing elements that aren't necessarily contrary. Now there may be a large segment of the gaming population that is ego deficient, lacking in openness, and prefers power-gaming to other elements of gaming. I'm open to the idea that folks that are into extreme power-gaming tend to lack openness and imagination. But I've know plenty of folks that are extremely imaginative, open, yet enjoy killing things and taking their stuff, leveling up, and pure adventure over heavy melodrama.To put this more bluntly, World of Darkness folks aren't inherently more imaginative and open than D&D folks (or vice versa). You've got plenty of imaginative and open folks in either camp, and plenty of closed ego-deficient folks i either camp. I would question a strong weighting one way or the other.</blockquote>

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