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There are 2 types of rpg gamers

Started by dragoner, April 25, 2016, 03:59:04 PM

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Shemek hiTankolel

#30
May 02, 2016, 01:07:50 PM
Quote from: The Butcher;894651I was referring to this classic screed, of course.

Yes, but do real barbarians eat quiche?
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markfitz

#31
May 02, 2016, 02:47:26 PM
Quote from: The Butcher;894651I was referring to this classic screed, of course.

Ha! I love that. Despite the fact that I'm an out and out quiche eating RuneQuest player. I guess real men also like severing limbs ...

crkrueger

#32
May 03, 2016, 01:02:47 AM Last Edit: May 03, 2016, 01:06:13 AM by CRKrueger
Quote from: markfitz;895437Ha! I love that. Despite the fact that I'm an out and out quiche eating RuneQuest player. I guess real men also like severing limbs ...
You forget...

"The determined Real Man can instigate violence in any ruleset."

A Real Man can butcher things with more efficiency, brutality, and pure manly Conan-like Epic Awesomeness in RQ6 than in any other game system. :cool:

BTW, Real Men don't eat Quiche, they eat Bacon, Egg, Sausage, Cheese, and Onion Deep Dish Omelettes...in a pie!
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remial

#33
May 08, 2016, 02:56:00 AM
there are 2 types of people in the world (and gamers too I suppose).  Those who prefer Addams Family, and those who prefer the Munsters.

yes, there are some who like both.  but you always like one or the other more.

(personally I didn't care for the Munsters, but I did like the pilot with Eddie Izzard as Grandpa, and Jerry O'Connell as Herman)

WizardofthePress

#34
May 08, 2016, 02:57:15 PM
I find myself fancier to #1, but I know this guy who is definitely both, which is why he's playing the Martial Artist in my playtest, lol.
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RPGPundit

#35
May 11, 2016, 07:53:33 AM
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Krimson

#36
May 16, 2016, 10:53:35 AM
Those who would rather argue about the game than actually play it. >.<

^These guys are the real game killers, I have seen it too many times.
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Larsdangly

#37
May 16, 2016, 11:00:03 AM
I think the OP misses the most important group: casual gamers who don't get wrapped up in either the setting or the rules. Impossible as this might sound on an online forum, in my experience these are the most abundant, and usually best, players: people who just take it all in stride and have fun in the moment with whatever is going on.

Krimson

#38
May 16, 2016, 11:07:01 AM
Quote from: Larsdangly;898123I think the OP misses the most important group: casual gamers who don't get wrapped up in either the setting or the rules. Impossible as this might sound on an online forum, in my experience these are the most abundant, and usually best, players: people who just take it all in stride and have fun in the moment with whatever is going on.

I was at my FLGS yesterday, and this pretty much sums up the gamers I saw there. I've patronized this store since it was a hole in the wall in '86, and now not a single game table was playing D&D. It was all card games with a couple of miniature games. D&D 5e has one obscure display which you really have to look for amongst all the card and board games which now dominate the floor. I'll bet dollars to donuts that I'll see a table playing Cards Against Humanity before I see D&D.
"Anyways, I for one never felt like it had a worse \'yiff factor\' than any other system." -- RPGPundit

dragoner

#39
May 16, 2016, 11:24:25 AM
Quote from: Larsdangly;898123I think the OP misses the most important group: casual gamers who don't get wrapped up in either the setting or the rules. Impossible as this might sound on an online forum, in my experience these are the most abundant, and usually best, players: people who just take it all in stride and have fun in the moment with whatever is going on.

I miss nothing, NOTHING! The OP was a bit tongue in cheek, but I'd put casual players more towards group one, I am one.
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daniel_ream

#40
May 16, 2016, 11:46:09 AM
Quote from: Krimson;898128I'll bet dollars to donuts that I'll see a table playing Cards Against Humanity before I see D&D.

Once upon a time tabletop RPGs were the only way for a lot of different gamers with  a lot of different tastes to get their gaming fix.  Now that tabletop games have exploded, it turns out that dungeon crawling RPGs qua dungeon crawling RPGs aren't actually what most gamers want to play.
D&D is becoming Self-Referential.  It is no longer Setting Referential, where it takes references outside of itself. It is becoming like Ouroboros in its self-gleaning for tropes, no longer attached, let alone needing outside context.
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Krimson

#41
May 16, 2016, 11:52:03 AM
Well to be honest I think most gamers stay at home and play video games these days.
"Anyways, I for one never felt like it had a worse \'yiff factor\' than any other system." -- RPGPundit

Ravenswing

#42
May 16, 2016, 12:01:11 PM
Quote from: Krimson;898128I was at my FLGS yesterday, and this pretty much sums up the gamers I saw there. I've patronized this store since it was a hole in the wall in '86, and now not a single game table was playing D&D. It was all card games with a couple of miniature games. D&D 5e has one obscure display which you really have to look for amongst all the card and board games which now dominate the floor. I'll bet dollars to donuts that I'll see a table playing Cards Against Humanity before I see D&D.
Well ... but dial it back 50 years (if the FLGS has been around that long), and of course not a single table would've been playing D&D either.  They'd have been playing Tactics II, or Gettysburg, or Diplomacy, or a battle recreation with minis.  And almost to a man, those wargamers were glaring at disgust a decade later at Those Damn Kids and Their Elf Games, which had taken over their private reserve.
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dragoner

#43
May 16, 2016, 12:03:23 PM
A lot of people still play cards and chess and whatnot, but for posting here, I think table top RPG should be put before the quote gamers.
The most beautiful peonies I ever saw ... were grown in almost pure cat excrement.
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cranebump

#44
May 17, 2016, 09:25:29 AM
Quote from: Krimson;898128I was at my FLGS yesterday, and this pretty much sums up the gamers I saw there. I've patronized this store since it was a hole in the wall in '86, and now not a single game table was playing D&D. It was all card games with a couple of miniature games. D&D 5e has one obscure display which you really have to look for amongst all the card and board games which now dominate the floor. I'll bet dollars to donuts that I'll see a table playing Cards Against Humanity before I see D&D.

At the game stores, nothing but Magic the Gathering around here. It's fucking omnipresent. Multiple events per week. There are some nights of heavy tabletop gaming in some stores, but it's dominated by D&D, especially 5E. It's MtG or D&D, and fuck everything else. This includes even trying to recruit outside the D&D behemoth. You pitch BoL or something like Dungeon World, you don't get many nibbles (outside long time players tired of D&D).
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