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<blockquote data-quote="JediSoth" data-source="post: 5612387" data-attributes="member: 13882">I hate game mechanics discussions. Nothing will turn me off more than listening to someone spout of statistics and crunch numbers in lieu of actual, intelligent conversation. If your character is nothing more than his equipment, his &quot;build&quot;, and his &quot;DPS&quot;, I. DON'T. CARE.As a parallel, I hate elitism among gamers. At the last Pathfinder Society game I was at, one of the players (who just finished a conversation about pure crunch with someone else at the table) went on a lengthy and LOUD rant about how he hated newbie players and didn't think they had any place playing at PFS games at Gen Con. While a newbie player was sitting at the table. ::headdesk::My wife said people like him are the reason she doesn't play games at Gen Con; they make the experience far too intimidating. She much prefers smaller, more intimate conventions where the game designers (like Jim Ward during our Metamorphosis Alpha game at Gary Con) themselves encourage new players and couldn't give two [expletive deleted] about much damage your character can do per round with his +3 Jagged MagicMetal Orc-Slaying Sword of Awesomeness.Fortunately, we had so many people show up that night that a higher-tier table was spun off, and Mr. I-Am-Awesomer-Than-Everyone-Else-At-This-Table went to play with them, and the rest of us had a great game with quite a bit of role-playing for an OP game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JediSoth, post: 5612387, member: 13882"] I hate game mechanics discussions. Nothing will turn me off more than listening to someone spout of statistics and crunch numbers in lieu of actual, intelligent conversation. If your character is nothing more than his equipment, his "build", and his "DPS", I. DON'T. CARE. As a parallel, I hate elitism among gamers. At the last Pathfinder Society game I was at, one of the players (who just finished a conversation about pure crunch with someone else at the table) went on a lengthy and LOUD rant about how he hated newbie players and didn't think they had any place playing at PFS games at Gen Con. While a newbie player was sitting at the table. ::headdesk:: My wife said people like him are the reason she doesn't play games at Gen Con; they make the experience far too intimidating. She much prefers smaller, more intimate conventions where the game designers (like Jim Ward during our Metamorphosis Alpha game at Gary Con) themselves encourage new players and couldn't give two [expletive deleted] about much damage your character can do per round with his +3 Jagged MagicMetal Orc-Slaying Sword of Awesomeness. Fortunately, we had so many people show up that night that a higher-tier table was spun off, and Mr. I-Am-Awesomer-Than-Everyone-Else-At-This-Table went to play with them, and the rest of us had a great game with quite a bit of role-playing for an OP game. [/QUOTE]

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