TTRPG Table Alignments

Picture of people doing the thing you wish you were doing instead of reading this blog by Emiel Boven, CC-BY 4.0 IntroductionSo I've been talking about Play Style Preferences lately, which is good to talk about just so one can figure out if their play culture aligns closely enough with the play culture of everyone else in the game. There are lots of models for having this conversation, whether its Skullboy's RPG Preferences Matrix, the Three Question Taxonomy, or Close and Distant Playstyles. However, the more I think about it and talk about it with friends, the more it seems like there are more practical considerations beyond play culture that can determine whether a group is ultimately cohesive. I can often play in groups that have variances in their play style preferences compared to my own, but I have a hard time when we are not aligned enough in the particular categories I am about to talk about. There are two fundamental axes (as in the plural of axis) that people should…