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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 6877969" data-attributes="member: 36150">This thread is huge.I dipped in and out and what I got is this:thecasualoblivion loved 4e because 4e's design was inherently combat-centric.  4e Encounters games were "enter these 5 rooms boxed together and murder everything for 3 hours" as a co-op/team effort.5's design is "let's get back to the role-playing side of gaming".  AL games try to involve players in a collective story-telling environment while also having some combat.As I see it, thecasualoblivion says "no thanks" to the story and waits politely while everyone elfs it up until his sword is ready to take on the combat challenges.His/her preference of play style is a completely valid play style, but one that is not reflected in the spirit of 5e's "back to the story" style, hence their frustration.I totally get it.  We have a kid in our game who flakes out whenever anything non-combat hits the table.  We hate him for it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  But his Challenge/Submission styled arse still wants to come to the table and be part of our mostly Narrative/Expression group and that's fine.  The DM knows not to prep anything story-related for him and the player is perfectly fine with that.  Sometimes we're not, but that's because we tend to bounce off each other for improv and having one non-invested player makes it harder for our own immersion/story.D&D allows for <a href="http://theangrygm.com/gaming-for-fun-part-1-eight-kinds-of-fun/" target="_blank">a bunch of playstyles</a> and a decent DM will try and provide for as many as possible.</blockquote>

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