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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadzar" data-source="post: 5455226" data-attributes="member: 6667746">But you really can't discuss/quantify an experience as each person experiences things differently.A player that goes through the game in brothels, and that is what they enjoy as their experience, bout easily say that getting a real prostitute is the D&D experience to them.Could we all agree that getting a prostitute is the D&D experience?If we quantify the experience as "fun with friends", then playing Magic the Gathering is D&D, going ot to the pub is D&D.All you would be doing is really genericizing the term to mean one small aspect. The problem with discussing D&D is what was posted in the "dilution" thread. No one will every agree with everyone else what it is, because it iself doesn't agree with itself what it is.The more generic you make it to include all products carrying the D&D brand name, the more you open it up for inclusion of other RPGs, and activities.If one says "I like D&D" and also says "I like pudding", the simple experience of liking it would then make pudding = D&D for them?That is one of the biggest problems with the English language today is that it has no structure and words have no meaning, because the meanings are changed constantly. Very few have an actual meaning left to them.One can be happy that they like D&D, while another is happy that they also like D&D, if that is what you are striving for. The problem then lies when they start to relate those experiences and share them with others and the differing experiences come to head with each other.The pesonal attachment cannot be removed.</blockquote>

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