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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5834773" data-attributes="member: 2067">Personally, I would prefer that you say something like "I prefer crafting encounters when I play for reasons X, Y, Z."Leave your judgement of others' play experience out of it. No one asked for it. It's actively harmful to a constructive conversation. It sounds arrogant, ignorant, and paternalistic. You don't know me, you don't know my game, you've never played at my table, and you can't assume that you know better than me what I am going to have more fun doing. The moment you try to expand your hypothesis to anyone more than yourself, you're entering a world that you know nothing about. You believe you know what the ideal play experience is for a typical group? I believe you're wrong in that belief in at least three different ways. No, it's another example of how you don't me. Perhaps some other people do know me better than I know myself (my girlfriend sometimes, I suspect...and in certain contexts, advertisers, behavioral economists, psychologists, and creative artists), but you don't know me. And what's more, I didn't ask for your input on how you think I could make my game better (generally the opinion of advertisers, economists, and all that, is solicited in some way).Let's put it this way: I wouldn't tell a fat woman who talking on an ice cream forum about how much she loves this peanut butter cup ice cream and thinks everyone should try it about diabetes, heart failure, factory dairy farms, George Washington Carver, Black History Month, the caocao plant, conquistadors, Hershey, and morally dubious imports from South America. I might say, if it was relevant to the discussion, "I think I'll stick with the caramel gelato at my local fair trade store. Less calories, less guilt, and it tastes so good!"I wouldn't say "Fair trade caramel gelato is better because it doesn't make you fat, and it makes the world a better place. It should be the only option, except maybe if you want to go online to a specialist store."edit: And I want to be clear that this is me trying to be constructive, D, not confrontational. Looks like a few posters have been turned off more by your style of posting than by your salient points, and you seem like a pretty thoughtful poster from what I can tell, so I'd like it if people could address your actual points instead of spending a lot of time, energy, and verbiage being annoyed at how you present them.</blockquote>

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