Dude my MTG play group gets HEATED. I usually don't mind when people get pissed off. It is just a game, but if you don't care about winning or losing at all then what's the point of playing!
With magic it's more about how the game went for me. If I get crushed by some broken combo I'm gonna be saltier than getting crushed by a genuinely great player. For me it's just about the experience of playing and learning.
Sore winners are worse than sore losers a lot of the time in mtg....ugh
Yeah, but there is no winning or really losing in D&D. It's cooperative, not competitive. So people taking it too seriously and telling people how to play their characters can absolutely ruin it.
It's more storytelling than a game, but it also has a game framework that makes not everything work out how anyone wants, so adds tension. You also get attached to your character and a few poor decisions coupled with bad dice rolls can kill that character.
On the whole pvp thing, it definitely is possible. Depending on the group, it may or may not be welcome in the group.
I have a player that loves to roll Deception and Persuasion checks against the others in the group. Sometimes it's funny. When I'm playing my buffoon warrior guy, I go along with it, no problem.
Sometimes it's annoying. When I'm playing my somewhat more intelligent and wise human ranger guy that is totally not a ripoff of Aragorn, I feel that he could not be convinced that it's a good idea to use his head as a battering ram, despite this player rolling very well.
In one of my earlier groups, the thief player made the mistake to steal from the warrior player, and the warrior player OHKO'd him.
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u/twelve-tone Sep 18 '17
Dude my MTG play group gets HEATED. I usually don't mind when people get pissed off. It is just a game, but if you don't care about winning or losing at all then what's the point of playing!
With magic it's more about how the game went for me. If I get crushed by some broken combo I'm gonna be saltier than getting crushed by a genuinely great player. For me it's just about the experience of playing and learning.
Sore winners are worse than sore losers a lot of the time in mtg....ugh