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<blockquote data-quote="ShadesOfGrey" data-source="post: 5388337" data-attributes="member: 98317">Please don't misunderstand, I'm not mocking. I do believe play is a positive and important thing. Being passionate about something is good, but I do feel that people sometimes just seem need to see things in perspective (again). Fanboyism is something you see when this happens. And when I make a joke about &quot;roll/role protocol serious-bussiness&quot;, I dont mean that disparagingly to RPG's or the people who play them. What I mean.. well, here's an observation of mine, YMMV, but often I see some people focus too much on the how and not enough on the why.Focusing on the what and forgetting about the who.What I mean is I see people being very focused on doing things in some mythical 'right way' or too focused on the RAW or 'the right playstyle' or if things are 'correct in the setting' and lose sight why they are actually playing, namely: having an entertaining experience with friends.Focusing too much on what system and edition, while IMO it's more important who you are playing with and a matter of attitude.Unless we're talking some kind of tournament or such, rules and methods are a tool, not the goal. When people ask 'are we doing this correctly?' instead of 'does doing this actively support our enjoyment?', you're approaching things in the wrong way.All YMMV and IMHO offoarse, but this is what I ment with 'protocol serious-bussiness' vs 'playing game' <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ShadesOfGrey, post: 5388337, member: 98317"] Please don't misunderstand, I'm not mocking. I [I]do [/I]believe play is a positive and important thing. Being passionate about something is good, but I do feel that people sometimes just seem need to see things in perspective (again). Fanboyism is something you see when this happens. And when I make a joke about "roll/role protocol serious-bussiness", I dont mean that disparagingly to RPG's or the people who play them. What I mean.. well, here's an observation of mine, YMMV, but often I see some people focus too much on the [I]how [/I]and not enough on the [I]why[/I]. Focusing on the [I]what [/I]and forgetting about the [I]who[/I]. What I mean is I see people being very focused on doing things in some mythical 'right way' or too focused on the RAW or 'the right playstyle' or if things are 'correct in the setting' and lose sight why they are actually playing, namely: having an entertaining experience with friends. Focusing too much on what system and edition, while IMO it's more important who you are playing with and a matter of attitude. Unless we're talking some kind of tournament or such, rules and methods are a tool, not the goal. When people ask 'are we doing this correctly?' instead of 'does doing this actively support our enjoyment?', you're approaching things in the wrong way. All YMMV and IMHO offoarse, but this is what I ment with 'protocol serious-bussiness' vs 'playing game' ;) [/QUOTE]

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