While doing research over the last few months, a few things have become very apparent about the Tabletop gaming genre.
1. Some people will never let go of D&D 2nd or 3.5 edition no matter what and refuse to try anything else.
2. Some people will always read rules in the way that benefits them the most no matter how little sense it makes.
3. Some people don’t understand the words, “in theory”.
4. Some people just take things too seriously.
I bring this up, because it just seems like some people manage to play tabletop games without ever realizing there’s other people at the table. Whether it’s people that literally are so wrapped up in roleplaying that they should just be writing a novel, or people that take the game part of roleplaying game so far that they should be playing a video game instead, some people just seem to forget that they need to get along with the other players. Now, it’s true that every gaming system caters more to one or the other (Pirates Versus Ninjas itself leans just ever so slightly in the direction of gamers), but that doesn’t mean a roleplayer can’t have fun in a gamer’s game without spoiling everyone else’s mood and vice versa.
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