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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9344793" data-attributes="member: 20564">Yes and no.Yes. One of the great things that taught me about this was DMing at cons.&nbsp; Getting a group with all joke character names and just beer and pretzels play used to get to me - until I just realized they were all just here to have fun, they just did it different from the groups I normally were with.&nbsp; I adjusted to their style and all was good.&nbsp; I had a blast, running in a way that wouldn't have worked at all for either of my usual groups.&nbsp; Have been exposed to a bunch of other play styles at cons, FLGS games or just through new-to-me players over the years.But, no.&nbsp; You throw one person with a radically different style onto a table that's otherwise aligned and unless that person is you, it's not reasonable to expect that you and everyone else who was around the table will change their playstyle to match the one.&nbsp; Not saying their style isn't valid - it is - but they need to either align enough so that the Venn diagrams of playstyle is mostly overlap, or it would be best if they found another table.In other words, people can have valid and different play styles, but if they conflict with others at the table, that still can be disruptive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 9344793, member: 20564"] Yes and no. Yes. One of the great things that taught me about this was DMing at cons. Getting a group with all joke character names and just beer and pretzels play used to get to me - until I just realized they were all just here to have fun, they just did it different from the groups I normally were with. I adjusted to their style and all was good. I had a blast, running in a way that wouldn't have worked at all for either of my usual groups. Have been exposed to a bunch of other play styles at cons, FLGS games or just through new-to-me players over the years. But, no. You throw one person with a radically different style onto a table that's otherwise aligned and unless that person is you, it's not reasonable to expect that you and everyone else who was around the table will change their playstyle to match the one. Not saying their style isn't valid - it is - but they need to either align enough so that the Venn diagrams of playstyle is mostly overlap, or it would be best if they found another table. In other words, people can have valid and different play styles, but if they conflict with others at the table, that still can be disruptive. [/QUOTE]

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