Rules lawyers, Something to think about Options

[masterofm]

This will probably be my last post, but I thought it was an interesting observation.

I was looking over different forums and it seems like rules lawyers get a lot of flack for being way to anal or uptight. It seems like quite a few cases are taken in the extreme as generally those people are the most memorable when you are in a group.

However I thought that rules lawyers are not all bad. For instance I am a rules lawyer in my game. I like to play by the rules, but in the end I am also the go to guy when it comes to making game happen. Generally they are the people who will call everyone to make sure that games happens every week or every other week. They are also good at bean counting like keeping track of IP's, initiative, wound penalties, and house rules. The rules they remember can help the other players as much as hurt them, but generally the good thing is they are generally looked upon to remember who went off last session, and the general rules that can apply to certain situations.

All extremes suck, but I just think maybe not all rules lawyers are bad.