[UA] Re: Powergaming: we CAN find a cure!

[Daniel Solis]

> You're a guy whose bread and 
> butter is machines and engines and taking them apart and putting them 
> together.  No matter what, anyone who's designed a roleplaying system 
> from SCRATCH, and pondered over the effect of various mechanics on game 
> balance CANNOT be called a powergamer.  You're merely enjoying the game 
> from 'the other side', the esoteric yin and yang that most roleplayers 
> really never bother looking at.

I find this description particularly  interesting since my friends say the same thing about me.
The difference is that they've kinda given up on playing with me because I can't stop peeking
behind the curtain. They don't care what subliminal messages a system is communicating through its
mechanics ans unspoken assumptions... They just want to play. :P



		
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