Why We Game - FUN

A short little commentary on the nature of fun in gaming.
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[@FlintFireforge]

Great insight. I like the term adjusting your fun meter. Changing the fun dial works best if the player has the self awareness and changes it themselves, if not, the DM should try to help them consider group fun over self fun. If that doesn't work, then they should seek a table where their fun meters align.

[@fromthehildt]

Very nicely put, my friend. I'm right there with you. 💯💫

[@nosaurian]

FTG: Fun to Game

[@theMrBaker]

Excellent view points. I think this is relevant to life in general, not just gaming.

[@grumpyoldslan]

There's fun and there's also that great feeling you get when a group is having fun and you did something to bring that abiout. Everyone experiences both in a good group.

[@Archaeo_Matt]

Definitely good advice, and not just for gaming. I know my own personal sense of fun involves stripping everything down to the components, exploring how it all works together, trying to reassemble everything in different ways to see how many configurations are workable, and then putting things back the way I've found them. I learned pretty early on that not everyone enjoys that level of deconstruction, and some folks will always find it off-putting no matter how much I reassure them that there's no judgement involved, just a curiosity about width, breadth, and depth of everything. I've known many people, throughout the course of my life, who found me to be "nice enough, but exhausting." Cheers!

[@Coco.B.]

I've always thought; "your table, your rules", who is anybody to say they're doin' it wrong. Mind yer business.. of course I may be wrong and a RPG posse may show up and demand my books 🤓🫤

[@elfbait3774]

Absolutely and that falls under the group fun label. I do think that absolutes are worth trying to avoid but I also fully endorse people playing the games they want and how they want to play them. Groups always flex to some degree it's just a matter of knowing where the breaking point is and avoiding it. This is where personal fun comes in. If a table to approach doesn't play how you like. Either adapt to the table ot move on.