Gamer or Player?

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Originally Posted by timm meyers

Thats a great point!
I would think that the "Modeler" category shares allot of aspects with the "Gamer". Analyzing factors and seeking balance to Model a world build or reality simulation is extremely rewarding (and important imho).
Perhaps the "Modeler" is more from a GM perspective as opposed to a PC perspective.

I'll agree that there is synergy between the modeler and the gamer, in that the game rules are a language in which to express the world model. On the other hand, for me, at least, the "player" or story aspect ideally emerges out of the model, so there's synergy there, too.

Certainly as a GM I do a lot of modeling. (Back in the 1980s, a player in one of my campaigns told me, "Bill, there are national governments that keep fewer statistics than you do for your campaigns!") But I do modeling as a player, also, thinking out what my characters are capable of and how their abilities work. Perhaps that's particularly important to me because I'm fairly strongly oriented to supers as a genre . . .