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"What is a Role-Playing Game?"

Started by KrakaJak, February 20, 2007, 02:02:49 PM

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KrakaJak

#15
March 05, 2007, 08:18:31 PM
Quote from: Mark PlemmonsHeck, D&D still has two pages worth of similar introduction.

Actualy, it doesn't. That was the whole begining of this thread. D&D does NOT have a What is an RPG section. It only describes what D&D is (whch happens to be a role-playing game)
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ColonelHardisson

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March 05, 2007, 08:29:13 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceAnything more than "RPGs are like let's pretend with rules. Here are the rules:" is a waste of paper, ink, and time.

-clash

For you or me, maybe. But I know for a fact that those sections have helped make clear what a RPG is to complete newbs, who have no idea what RPGs are all about. And I'm talking complete newbs; not genre fans who've heard of RPGs, not CRPG players who are thinking of trying a P&P RPG, I mean someone who is coming into the entire concept cold.
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March 05, 2007, 09:12:32 PM
Quote from: KrakaJak"Game X is a game where you and you friends pretend to be Dungaree's hanging in a store window. It's part wargame, part 'let's pretend', part business model".
*snort*  HA HA HA!
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March 05, 2007, 09:13:18 PM
Quote from: KrakaJakActualy, it doesn't. That was the whole begining of this thread. D&D does NOT have a What is an RPG section. It only describes what D&D is (whch happens to be a role-playing game)

Guess my short-term memory's failing...  :)  I forgot the D&D pages were pointed out specifically.
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March 05, 2007, 09:19:55 PM
Quote from: ColonelHardissonFor you or me, maybe. But I know for a fact that those sections have helped make clear what a RPG is to complete newbs, who have no idea what RPGs are all about. And I'm talking complete newbs; not genre fans who've heard of RPGs, not CRPG players who are thinking of trying a P&P RPG, I mean someone who is coming into the entire concept cold.

OK, if you insist. I don't care enough to fight about it. :D

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