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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 6018252" data-attributes="member: 25619">Two additional approaches, mine and the approach my friend Ron takes:- I run traditional D&D.  Greyhawk, 3.5e core rulebooks, 1st edition feel adventures.  Everyone I game with is a friend OUTSIDE the game -- and they all either played AD&D back in the decade and were reintroduced to the game by me, or they never played D&D until I asked them to give it a shot -- I grow my own players.  I get a campaign I like (no gonzo), and they get a campaign they can understand and that feels right, Tolkienesque old school "classic rock" D&D.  There's a lot of "setting" to my game, but it's nothing that constrains the tropes of the game or prevents anything in the PHB or DMG from being played.  We keep from getting bored by the simple expedient of being too busy to play very often.- Ron runs adventures he finds interesting, and traditionally doesn't worry much about the setting.  He's currently doing 4e in the Nentir Vale.  He eliminates gonzo by the simple expedient of having players who aren't interested in it and mostly don't own books beyond the PHB.  We keep from getting bored by the simple expedient of, again, not playing more than a few times a year because it's so hard to meet up, and in Ron's case, being heavily focused on combat.  That my character is Tiberius with the goal of restoring the fallen empire (and acting Roman) and Sean's character is Erik the Viking with the goal of acting like a Viking doesn't prevent us from being in the same setting and cooperating in the main business of killing things and taking their stuff.Done and done -- and I'm guessing pretty common approaches to the game.What I mean by Gonzo is Over the Top, bizarre for the sake of being bizarre characters: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_the_Great" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_the_Great</a>"Unlike most of the central Muppets characters, Gonzo is not a puppet version of a human or a recognizable animal. He sports a bizarre, non-human appearance, which includes blue fur, purple feathers on his head, bug-eyes, and a long, hooked nose. ... dedicated to performing for its own sake, regardless of audience reaction.    ...  "I shall now eat a rubber tire to the music of The Flight of the Bumblebee...music, maestro!""</blockquote>

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