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Originally Posted by Ragitsu
Wrong. I think you've taken things way way WAY out of context and exaggerated the amount of folks who truly believe EVERYTHING needs a stat (yeah, it's not as widespread as you think and please, give their common sense some credit).
Also, "unnecessary" is subjective to begin with.
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Most of us have been gaming for a while, I've personally been around this stuff for over 20 years, you
cannot underestimate how many GMs we lose to the hobby due to their being overwhelmed by unnecessary minutiae and wasting time on overstatting instead of actually getting ready to run a game.
People tend to get caught up in overstatting and call off game sessions, campaigns, even call off the whole hobby, and we lose another GM/game because they feel themselves unprepared to run due to lack of statted "things".
So, in all seriousness, getting people to not overstat is one of the ways which we can keep our hobby alive and prospering.
Someone who spends hours upon hours statting up stuff is playing a game, but it's a lonely statting game, not the social roleplaying game which involves multiple people that most of us are playing.