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Ok, I know I sound like a curmudgeon but hear me out on this one. I think putting the focus on “fun” when it comes to TTRPGs is putting the cart before the horse. Having fun is the result of actions, it doesn’t happen on its own so the focus should be on the game itself. When I show up to play a TTRPG, my primary purpose is not “to have fun”, I’m there to play the game because playing the game results in fun. 

Let me provide an example to help you understand. For several years I was a club coordinator for a college TTRPG group and I ran a lot of DnD 5e. After a while it was easy for me to pick out who was there to play DnD and who was there to “have fun”. One guy showed up and insisted that he play a donkey because he thought it would be funny. He didn’t want to be able to talk or have a class or anything, he just wanted to play a donkey. Well I let him (my mistake) and he spent most of the session bored out of his mind because DnD is a game centered around combat not braying and eating grass. 

The sad thing is there are plenty of TTRPGs centered around playing mundane animals where a donkey character would be appropriate but DnD is certainly not one of them. It's like he showed up to a basketball game and decided that it would be fun to see how high he could bounce the ball. That's all well and good but the rest of us are here to play a game. 

Does what I’m saying make sense? Do you think there is a difference between focusing on playing the game and having fun? Am I just being pedantic?

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