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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wolfen" data-source="post: 1085981" data-attributes="member: 12717">Here's my belief based upon the fine posting contributed thus far:Gaming will tend to attract the abstract thinking, imaginative type in greater proportions.  However, this type of person (in my experience) has difficulty recognizing the distinctiveness of their thinking patterns.  In general, we tend to think we're weird or less popular because we choose to game.  However, I submit to you that the greater issue is that our thoughts and ideas distinguish us, and that gaming is a natural expression of some of these.In other words, sometimes our propensity for imagination makes it difficult to recognize and accept the average man's thinking patterns.  It's easy to assume that we simply choose or prefer different hobbies.  But the fact remains -- some people are simply incapable of engaging in RPG's, and some simply get no joy from it.   That automatically and inevitably skews the gamer demographic.I have hard time comprehending that so many people are incapable of engaging or enjoying their imagination as often as I do and the way that I do.  How can they live like that?  In my experience, the average person going on a hike is thinking/discussing "The sky is pretty" while I'm imagining battles being fought, the advantages of the terrain, 'what kind of mystical creature might live here?', the challenge of building and defending a small settlement in the area...etc.  If my experience is representative, then am I a gamer or a hiker?  I'm a hiking gamer.HOWEVER, so far the conversation has also tended to discuss creativity as though it were unidimensional...as if pottery, needlepoint, or basketball were not creative expressions.I think gamers tend to be more creative in particular ways -- but it's not like we all have 20 ranks in a generic Creativity skill an the rest of the population is "commoner."My .o2wolfen</blockquote>

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