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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6571859" data-attributes="member: 7006">I don't know if we could ever really pin down a time period per se for when most &quot;story first&quot; players started versus &quot;game first&quot; players started, and I don't even know whether it's worth the bother.&nbsp; There are dozens of potential reasons why players and DMs have evolved their style in playing RPGs.I do not disagree with you at all that players whose first RPG was the Storyteller game system might lean in a different direction when playing D&amp;D than someone who started playing D&amp;D in the 70s and evolved directly out of the miniatures wargaming fad.&nbsp; And people who started with 3E probably lean a bit different than those who started with 4E.&nbsp; Those who really love Fiasco probably lean differently than those who love Rolemaster.&nbsp; And at the same time, you have people like myself who started playing with the Red Box as a teen and have played every D&amp;D edition since then... but who also has been studying, performing, and directing improv for going on 20 years.&nbsp; So someone like myself, or people who have studied and perform theater, or people who also LARP, might possibly lean in the direction where the drama and the story of a scene in an RPG usually takes precedence over the mechanics and dice.&nbsp; And that has nothing to do with our ages or which games we started with.So all of us have developed and evolved our styles, and thus no one manner of playing D&amp;D is more &quot;right&quot; or &quot;natural&quot; than any other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6571859, member: 7006"] I don't know if we could ever really pin down a time period per se for when most "story first" players started versus "game first" players started, and I don't even know whether it's worth the bother. There are dozens of potential reasons why players and DMs have evolved their style in playing RPGs. I do not disagree with you at all that players whose first RPG was the Storyteller game system might lean in a different direction when playing D&D than someone who started playing D&D in the 70s and evolved directly out of the miniatures wargaming fad. And people who started with 3E probably lean a bit different than those who started with 4E. Those who really love Fiasco probably lean differently than those who love Rolemaster. And at the same time, you have people like myself who started playing with the Red Box as a teen and have played every D&D edition since then... but who also has been studying, performing, and directing improv for going on 20 years. So someone like myself, or people who have studied and perform theater, or people who also LARP, might possibly lean in the direction where the drama and the story of a scene in an RPG usually takes precedence over the mechanics and dice. And that has nothing to do with our ages or which games we started with. So all of us have developed and evolved our styles, and thus no one manner of playing D&D is more "right" or "natural" than any other. [/QUOTE]

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