That's more pointless than me trying to save money....

Eh... I liked it well enough. I'm not entirely sold on the idea of Purist Roleplayers and Immersionists being nemeses, but it is certainly true that the two broad categories look at things quite differently. I commented earlier today on yet another of the recurring threads in which an immersionist was completely baffled by (and not a little scornful of) the fact that many roleplayers play characters of the opposite six. From an immersionist point of view, it really doesn't make sense. From a purist roleplayer point of view, a character is a character and the only significant thing is whether s/he's interesting and believeable or not.

There's really only one thing in the entire thread that I saw that I'd bother to comment on specifically, and it has nothing really to do with the chart:


I don't believe for even a second that Todd is a gamer at all.

Baahaha! Lookie here: A trite snarky remark!

Back to the topic: I guess I'm a "wholist" who sometimes teetering between the "immersionists" and the "story players" camps. But overall I can't say that I entirely agree with the explanations of the chart.

Interesting I prefer to think outside the box, had enough problems with people puttin' me in 'boxes' ....

Somewhere between Wholists I assume than I am not a diehard roleplayer and not a diehard hardcoe player ....

Purist class gamers [probably :shrug:] don't care so much about dice as depth of possibility. I would wager that that if the games actually supported the depth that the dice rolls imply ~then those purists (including myself) would gladly drop the dice. (I don't see this happening in the next ten years; I don't see any profit in it either.)

I understand why people might balk at your final choices, but it's a good start and something I've been trying to wrap my head around in my few weeks on these forums. Currently I'm wholist, an immersionist following a natural evolution (for me at least) into a purist roleplayer. Sure, these terms might be silly, but for your purposes of trying to describe why gamers feel and debate what they do, it's interesting to think about. It's easier to see almost everyone as fans even if their gaming goals are in opposition to my own.

It also raises the question, which group most feels that their genre is under threat of extinction. I have a few guesses (hint: not casuals), but that debate gets into game and genre definitions, which is better beaten to death in other threads. I think this also fuels the debates between the opposing viewpoints. zzz...sorry, I put myself to sleep too.

I give this thread the:

BAD ASS SEAL OF APPROVAL
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