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<blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 6532785" data-attributes="member: 9053"><p>As sure as you are, you're wrong, at least in my case, and it was not a small case. Here's the thing, I'm not someone who doesn't have experience playing the game from zero to hero, so I know what I like because I've lived it. Many, many times. If I have to run one more caravan duty, or take on one more nest of giant rats in someone's basement, I'd, well ... I'd look for another game.</p><p></p><p>As I've written in the other thread, I don't have time to play some adventures off with my new low level guy, and neither does anyone else I play with. I'm not sure how old you are, but I'm getting on in years now. When you get older, you have plenty of things, <em>important </em>things, that can get in the way of gaming. As a result, leveling a character from first to sixth level (as in the example I used) just wouldn't happen in my spare time. Spare time. <em>Hah</em>! (imagine that laugh in an Alf voice).</p><p></p><p>I'm assuming that you mean well, but just don't: not everyone who doesn't share your play preferences just hasn't tried it out. Some of us know what we like, or in my case, what we don't like. Just like I'd never tell someone who's dead set on starting over from zero XP that they're playing it wrong, I expect the same courtesy in return.</p><p></p><p>So as someone who was there, I can definitively tell you there was no one way to play <em>any </em>single aspect of D&D, let alone how to deal with dead characters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveC, post: 6532785, member: 9053"] As sure as you are, you're wrong, at least in my case, and it was not a small case. Here's the thing, I'm not someone who doesn't have experience playing the game from zero to hero, so I know what I like because I've lived it. Many, many times. If I have to run one more caravan duty, or take on one more nest of giant rats in someone's basement, I'd, well ... I'd look for another game. As I've written in the other thread, I don't have time to play some adventures off with my new low level guy, and neither does anyone else I play with. I'm not sure how old you are, but I'm getting on in years now. When you get older, you have plenty of things, [I]important [/I]things, that can get in the way of gaming. As a result, leveling a character from first to sixth level (as in the example I used) just wouldn't happen in my spare time. Spare time. [I]Hah[/I]! (imagine that laugh in an Alf voice). I'm assuming that you mean well, but just don't: not everyone who doesn't share your play preferences just hasn't tried it out. Some of us know what we like, or in my case, what we don't like. Just like I'd never tell someone who's dead set on starting over from zero XP that they're playing it wrong, I expect the same courtesy in return. So as someone who was there, I can definitively tell you there was no one way to play [I]any [/I]single aspect of D&D, let alone how to deal with dead characters. [/QUOTE]
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