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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christopher Helton" data-source="post: 7688723" data-attributes="member: 6804772">Actually, I think that you'll see that I went out of my way to talk about my style of play in the article, rather than talking about how others play. A game, or method of play, not working for me, or working for our group, doesn't have anything to do with how others play or their games.If you read the first piece I wrote, I talked a little bit about my gaming history. I've been doing this since 1979, and I have played a number of different games. I am pretty open about not being a big D&D fan, in fact I've never touched entire editions of the game. A lot of that has to do, probably, with the fact that I'm not a huge fan of fantasy, so those games don't appeal as much to me. Give me a good super-hero or horror game, and I'm good.I was brought on here specifically to write about games that aren't D&D/Pathfinder, so that's what my articles are going to be. Play style is very important to how I approach games, so there's going to be discussions about what I think works, and what I think doesn't work. That's the nature of being a critic. But, when I write something I write it from my perspective, which may be one where things that work for some people don't work for me. That isn't an attack on how those other people play.I think one of the major problems with tabletop RPGs as a community is that too many people think that talk of other perspectives are, somehow, an attack on their own, when it is really just pointing out other views.The question of the title was rhetorical, it wasn't actually meant to be answered. This article is what we call a "think piece" in journalism. The idea was to bring attention to something, in this case the Gumshoe system, and to get people to think and talk about it.</blockquote>

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