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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8243220" data-attributes="member: 29398">There's a difference between a) actively wanting to improve and b) naturally improving through simple experience without any conscious effort involved.&nbsp; Most people are quite happy with b) and many see a) as overkill and all too often - rightly - equate it with wanting to be &quot;the best&quot;.That's about seven questions in two.&nbsp; To break them out some:-1- Do I think my skill as a player or GM can improve?&nbsp; Yes.-2- Do I think my enjoyment of playing/GMing would be enhanced by such improvement?&nbsp; Uncertain. (see below)-3- Do I think putting active effort into such improvement is necessary?&nbsp; Meh.&nbsp; Trial and error is good enough as long as I cop to the errors.-4- Do I see such active effort by myself or others as a positive thing?&nbsp; Oftentimes no.-5- Do I think the natural improvement that comes throguh simple experience is good enough?&nbsp; Yes, mostly.-6- Do I think my enjoyment of RPGs can be enhanced in general?&nbsp; Maybe, but this might at times conflict with other people's enjoyment.-7- Do I think my enjoyment of RPGs can be changed?&nbsp; Maybe, though I'm pretty much happy where I am.To expand on -2- a bit: there's things I've learned through GMing that as a player I'd be much happier having never known.&nbsp; There's also things I've learned through these forums that my players on ine side and my GM on the other side would probably be much happier had I never known. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8243220, member: 29398"] There's a difference between a) actively wanting to improve and b) naturally improving through simple experience without any conscious effort involved. Most people are quite happy with b) and many see a) as overkill and all too often - rightly - equate it with wanting to be "the best". That's about seven questions in two. To break them out some: -1- Do I think my skill as a player or GM can improve? Yes. -2- Do I think my enjoyment of playing/GMing would be enhanced by such improvement? Uncertain. (see below) -3- Do I think putting active effort into such improvement is necessary? Meh. Trial and error is good enough as long as I cop to the errors. -4- Do I see such active effort by myself or others as a positive thing? Oftentimes no. -5- Do I think the natural improvement that comes throguh simple experience is good enough? Yes, mostly. -6- Do I think my enjoyment of RPGs can be enhanced in general? Maybe, but this might at times conflict with other people's enjoyment. -7- Do I think my enjoyment of RPGs can be changed? Maybe, though I'm pretty much happy where I am. To expand on -2- a bit: there's things I've learned through GMing that as a player I'd be much happier having never known. There's also things I've learned through these forums that my players on ine side and my GM on the other side would probably be much happier had I never known. :) [/QUOTE]

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