New Posts For Thread: i'm not playing the same game as most people on these forums?http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/25788025/im_not_playing_the_same_game_as_most_people_on_these_forumswhat is wrong with killing players?  to be clear, i don't mean somehow treating them unfairly but instead mean simply having players die in an encounter?what is wrong with wiping out a party?when you soft ball an adventure, when you artificially weaI beleive I understand what you are saying here. I've read the other posts as well.I would like to ask you a few questions:1. When you are a player what does the DM have to do so you have a fun enjoyable time?2. As a player, do you create optiminal chttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/25788025/im_not_playing_the_same_game_as_most_people_on_these_forums?post_id=498204745#498204745I beleive I understand what you are saying here. I've read the other posts as well.I would like to ask you a few questions:1. When you are a player what does the DM have to do so you have a fun enjoyable time?2. As a player, do you create optiminal cTue, 07 Jun 2011 14:57:05 -0500I can't answer that question. My comments went to the nature of gamers, and, in particular, how they are going to find ways to make it competative whether it should be or not. Some will compete against other tables, some will compete against other plhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/25788025/im_not_playing_the_same_game_as_most_people_on_these_forums?post_id=466199569#466199569I can't answer that question. My comments went to the nature of gamers, and, in particular, how they are going to find ways to make it competative whether it should be or not. Some will compete against other tables, some will compete against other plTue, 14 Sep 2010 18:26:53 -0500I understand, Trollbill, but are living campaigns the place for competitive play? Trying to prove yourself against other tables... in a campaign that sees a lot of new and casual players, that has RPers as much as optimizers... that is a really nebulhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/25788025/im_not_playing_the_same_game_as_most_people_on_these_forums?post_id=466004305#466004305I understand, Trollbill, but are living campaigns the place for competitive play? Trying to prove yourself against other tables... in a campaign that sees a lot of new and casual players, that has RPers as much as optimizers... that is a really nebulMon, 13 Sep 2010 10:41:31 -0500Those statements, however, are far from mutually exclusive. Humans, by their nature, and gamers in particular, are a competative beast. Thus many, if not all, gamers have fun in some way by competing, even if D&D is not expressly a competative game.http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/25788025/im_not_playing_the_same_game_as_most_people_on_these_forums?post_id=465718125#465718125Those statements, however, are far from mutually exclusive. Humans, by their nature, and gamers in particular, are a competative beast. Thus many, if not all, gamers have fun in some way by competing, even if D&D is not expressly a competative game.Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:05:03 -0500Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with players being able to win, however I'm not going to naievely say that the 12 int wizard has any *right* to win at an APL combat, it's certainly possible and I'm not going to penalize them any more than they dihttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/25788025/im_not_playing_the_same_game_as_most_people_on_these_forums?post_id=465663157#465663157Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with players being able to win, however I'm not going to naievely say that the 12 int wizard has any *right* to win at an APL combat, it's certainly possible and I'm not going to penalize them any more than they diFri, 10 Sep 2010 18:54:48 -0500