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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8245676" data-attributes="member: 23751">I think you are selling people short.&nbsp; I've mastered dozens of board games with different rules and different strategies to win.&nbsp; I'm very good at them.&nbsp; I've also played different styles of D&amp;D(not much player facing) and mastered DMing and use a number of different tools to do things.&nbsp; Not every tool is useful in every circumstance, so the more you master, the better your DMing ability.&nbsp; [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER], [USER=16814]@Ovinomancer[/USER], [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER], and others have all stated that they have played and are good at a number of different styles from tradition to sandbox to player facing, etc.&nbsp; Are you suggesting that it was a bad idea for them to diversify like that?&nbsp; That they should have just specialized in one or two styles?&nbsp; It sounds that way with that response there. If that is what you are suggesting, then I disagree with that.&nbsp; Mastery of more styles gives you more tools at your disposal to run good games.&nbsp; People do have cognitive limits.&nbsp; I don't think mastery multiple styles and tools hits those limits or amounts to magical thinking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8245676, member: 23751"] I think you are selling people short. I've mastered dozens of board games with different rules and different strategies to win. I'm very good at them. I've also played different styles of D&D(not much player facing) and mastered DMing and use a number of different tools to do things. Not every tool is useful in every circumstance, so the more you master, the better your DMing ability. [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER], [USER=16814]@Ovinomancer[/USER], [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER], and others have all stated that they have played and are good at a number of different styles from tradition to sandbox to player facing, etc. Are you suggesting that it was a bad idea for them to diversify like that? That they should have just specialized in one or two styles? It sounds that way with that response there. If that is what you are suggesting, then I disagree with that. Mastery of more styles gives you more tools at your disposal to run good games. People do have cognitive limits. I don't think mastery multiple styles and tools hits those limits or amounts to magical thinking. [/QUOTE]

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