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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6252786" data-attributes="member: 22779">Umm, what?&nbsp; What do any of those things have to do with a &quot;creative process&quot;?Yup, the rules have a pretty profound effect on my experience.&nbsp; Would I prefer to play, say, a 1e one shot with friends to a 4e one shot?&nbsp; No, I wouldn't.&nbsp; I don't care for the 1e ruleset.&nbsp; It is not to my taste.But, OTOH, I would still play it with friends over not playing at all.&nbsp; The idea that somehow my &quot;creative process&quot; or &quot;the product I create&quot; is more important than the time I'm spending with people I enjoy spending time with is also quite not to my taste.Thus, I could play all sorts of games, despite not particularly enjoying the games, because of the people.&nbsp; Heck, I just spent a couple of months playing in a Planescape game, despite being a pretty vocal critic of Planescape and having a good time.&nbsp; Precisely because I knew it was a short campaign (we were taking a bit of a break from our main campaign to give the DM some much needed recharge time).&nbsp; So, going back to the OP, I can emphatically say that yup, I'll play a short game of pretty much anything with people I enjoy spending time with.&nbsp; I know that because I just did it.To me, the people who claim that the system is just so important that it over rides spending time with friends and getting to play take the hobby far too seriously.&nbsp; The fact that you view playing an RPG as creating a product means that you and I should never, ever sit at the same table.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 6252786, member: 22779"] Umm, what? What do any of those things have to do with a "creative process"? Yup, the rules have a pretty profound effect on my experience. Would I prefer to play, say, a 1e one shot with friends to a 4e one shot? No, I wouldn't. I don't care for the 1e ruleset. It is not to my taste. But, OTOH, I would still play it with friends over not playing at all. The idea that somehow my "creative process" or "the product I create" is more important than the time I'm spending with people I enjoy spending time with is also quite not to my taste. Thus, I could play all sorts of games, despite not particularly enjoying the games, because of the people. Heck, I just spent a couple of months playing in a Planescape game, despite being a pretty vocal critic of Planescape and having a good time. Precisely because I knew it was a short campaign (we were taking a bit of a break from our main campaign to give the DM some much needed recharge time). So, going back to the OP, I can emphatically say that yup, I'll play a short game of pretty much anything with people I enjoy spending time with. I know that because I just did it. To me, the people who claim that the system is just so important that it over rides spending time with friends and getting to play take the hobby far too seriously. The fact that you view playing an RPG as creating a product means that you and I should never, ever sit at the same table. [/QUOTE]

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