Novice vs. expert players

Expert plays spend most of their time developing their skills as gamers rather than other skills, such memorization of 19th century poetry, biology, or Harry Potter spells. A novice player enjoys games for brief periods of time and does not invest in gaining skills that would enable the player to level up from a novice to an expert. An expert plays many different games and probably is good at all of them, while a novice does not play a lot of games, and probably sucks at all of them. An expert gamer probably associates with others on the basis of their shared gaming experience, which novice players probably interact with others on the basis of a different skill set they excel in (soccer knowledge, Batman comics, etc.).