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It's funny, back in the day I really hated AD&D

Started by nitril, August 07, 2012, 02:27:14 PM

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silva

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August 15, 2012, 08:07:43 AM
Quote from: Telarus;571605Hmmm, an actual definition occurred to me.


Story-Games are games which primarily draw on a vast body of literature and narrative theory to drive gameplay towards a narrative (with such identifiers as points-of-view, rising-and-falling-action, thematic-choice, chekov's-gun, etc).


Let us differentiate that from Role-Playing-Games, which are games which primarily draw on a vast body of wargaming-in-miniature and tactical-strategic theory to drive gameplay towards the experience of being an individual-character in a recreation of small and large-scale conflicts of a specific setting or world.

Yup. It makes sense.
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