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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bodah" data-source="post: 322430" data-attributes="member: 6711">I notice the type of behavior you speak of in my own group now and then.We are all guys between ages 16-18. Often they try their best to roleplay, but occasionally they have that need to compete like the game is a race or something. Now and then they get down to spouting off stats about who's character would beat who's and why their items are the best. It can lead to hard feelings sometimes, which I feel can be avoided, espicially when the situation is first brought on by one character showing off. I am not sure if they just want to compete because we are teenage guys or because they just must have the most dominant characters.Now to respond to the part of your post that I quoted. I dont think its either necessarially, I think its just a combination, being younger, and having a large video game influence. Alot of the RPG players I know learned about them from video games, so they have the same mentality when they come into a PnP RPG game. They think they must achieve raw power over anything else, best weapons, best stats, most money. I cant say that I like this way of thinking, and I wish some people I play with would change it. However I belive it comes back to being young, in the sense that its more of a phase, they'll grow out of it eventually, when they realize those things they are competing over are irrelevant when it comes down to it, and all thats relevant is the expeierence you have when you sit down at the game table, and the relationships you build.</blockquote>

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