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<blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 5927562" data-attributes="member: 16586"><p>I whole heartily disagree. It's fine to discuss why meta mechanics are dissatisfying to some people, but that's not what he did. He took things a step too far, and used the academically dishonest practice of definition play to attempt to ghettoize people who play in a manner he disagrees with. Ironically it smacks of the same sort of gaming elitism that extreme elements of the Forge community used to engage in.</p><p></p><p>Story gaming was a natural outgrowth of traditional role playing games. Many fairly traditional RPGs have elements of story gaming integrated into them, and there are very few games that lack any sort of disassociated mechanics. Story gaming is not some sort of other activity - it is a subset of role playing. One still engages the fiction primarily through a single character.</p><p></p><p>Here's the thing - you can discuss disassociated mechanics without necessarily attacking them as anathema to gaming. Simply state that you prefer to engage the game mechanics from the perspective of your character. There's no need to say that doing otherwise means someone is not actually playing a role playing game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Campbell, post: 5927562, member: 16586"] I whole heartily disagree. It's fine to discuss why meta mechanics are dissatisfying to some people, but that's not what he did. He took things a step too far, and used the academically dishonest practice of definition play to attempt to ghettoize people who play in a manner he disagrees with. Ironically it smacks of the same sort of gaming elitism that extreme elements of the Forge community used to engage in. Story gaming was a natural outgrowth of traditional role playing games. Many fairly traditional RPGs have elements of story gaming integrated into them, and there are very few games that lack any sort of disassociated mechanics. Story gaming is not some sort of other activity - it is a subset of role playing. One still engages the fiction primarily through a single character. Here's the thing - you can discuss disassociated mechanics without necessarily attacking them as anathema to gaming. Simply state that you prefer to engage the game mechanics from the perspective of your character. There's no need to say that doing otherwise means someone is not actually playing a role playing game. [/QUOTE]
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