Play Style Preferences: Lightning Round and Conclusions

Original image by Better Legends. Used with permission. IntroductionThere's been a lot of play style discourse lately, some of it contentious, and that has inspired me to revive my neglected Play Style Preferences series. I've let it lay fallow for a while not because I don't have enough to say on the various other categories on the matrix, but because I have too much to say. One of my goals with this series was to keep my posts very short by my standards, but attempting brevity in blog posts often results in me staying my hand. But Seraphina posted a nice little manifesto about writing short blog posts, which reminded me of Ram's post about microblogging. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to write a paragraph for each of the remaining categories. Let's start the lightning round! Violence and PeaceI am paradoxical as a player in that I like to have the option to solve things nonviolently but am very likely to resort to it if it is expedient and can be justified by my…