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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 5096195" data-attributes="member: 5143">That is highly offensive.  But baring the extreme amount of opinion you are throwing around as fact in your post, a roleplaying game is one in which you play the role of a character.  If that character's primary motivation is killing monsters and taking their stuff, it does NOT make it a tactical wargame to spend your time in the game focusing on those aspects.  It is simply a roleplaying game that focuses on different things than you like.Nor is playing that way any less imaginative.  I imagine my character swinging his sword, yelling out battle cries, blocking blows, and so on.  I imagine his motivations when I take every action.  Do I kill that enemy or try to knock him unconscious?  How will that effect the plot beyond this encounter?  The WHY I am killing them comes up on a regular basis.Contrast that to tactical wargaming.  I don't much care why I am killing anyone.  It's a game and I'm killing them because if I wasn't there would be no game.  The results of this battle likely won't factor into any future scenarios.  And if the do, it will be just to determine how many troops I have to start the next battle with.  I don't think about the motivations of my troops because I don't care what their motivations are.  My job as a player in a tactical war game is to win using the best tactics.Now, there are elements of tactical wargaming in D&D.  That's what makes combat fun.  I spent too many years where combat was not tactical and consisted of the DM pointing at me and I called out "AC 5 for 14 damage" and then he pointed at the next person in initiative.  I wouldn't exactly call that imaginative.  But it moved quickly and got us back into the exploration portions of the game in no time at all.</blockquote>

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