Reply To: I'm a bad, bad, gamer. I don't enjoy reading rules…

[Shaun Travers]

I am a fairly fast reader and love reading rules. When my friend and I used to play lots of game, I was the one that read the rules – he would buy a game and then pass me the rules 🙂 For my day job I used to have to read lots of IT manuals – now I read lots of strategy and research documents but similar skill and so I have lots of practice.  I find video rules review and AARs slow compared to reading them and so tend to avoid them.  I think they would be very useful for those with more time or less patience with digesting rules.  I used to read a lot on paper but again, due to my job I now am used to reading and writing everything electronically; I carry my work laptop everywhere and weeks can go by and I do not pick up a pen.  This has  helped at home, where I read and write just about everything electronically as well.  I even have succumbed to ebooks for fiction and read them on my phone (admittedly it has a 6″ screen).  I do miss real books for reading the portability has won out. About the only time I pick up a pen is to to fill in some paper form or write something on the shipping list.