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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7607717" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>I started the thread. [MENTION=22779]Hussar[/MENTION] is free to say what he likes about the dependence of much RPGing on the logic of genres (it's something I myself have been posting about for maybe 10+ years on these boards). But those things don't rebut the claim in the OP, which is pretty clear:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><p>I don't think Hussar has inadvertantely taken that for a claim that genre plays no role in RPGing.</p><p></p><p>And your claim that I'm derailing is itself derailing. Asking whether activity A answers to aesthetic criteria X of activity B is standard stuff. Eg <em>is movie-making a theatric endeavour?</em> or <em>is house-painting an artistic endeavour?</em> The only people I know who regularly turn this sort of question into debates about the meaning of words - as opposed to the obviously-intended discussion about the nature of some activity - are all ENworld posters.</p><p></p><p>This is not true. There's no general connection between <u>use of adjectives</u> and <em>literary quality</em>. Police use adjectives a lot in their public statements. Builders use adjectives to describe their projects. Children use adjectives to describe their bodily sensations. Etc. Using adjectives is part and parcel of describing things. But describing things isn't, per se, a literary activity.</p><p></p><p>To reiterate from the OP:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">RPGing requires narration: GMs describe situations, and players declare actions for their PCs that respond to those situations. But I don't think the literary quality of that narration is important.</p><p></p><p>The OP does not dispute that RPGing involves describing stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7607717, member: 42582"] I started the thread. [MENTION=22779]Hussar[/MENTION] is free to say what he likes about the dependence of much RPGing on the logic of genres (it's something I myself have been posting about for maybe 10+ years on these boards). But those things don't rebut the claim in the OP, which is pretty clear: [indent][/indent] I don't think Hussar has inadvertantely taken that for a claim that genre plays no role in RPGing. And your claim that I'm derailing is itself derailing. Asking whether activity A answers to aesthetic criteria X of activity B is standard stuff. Eg [I]is movie-making a theatric endeavour?[/I] or [I]is house-painting an artistic endeavour?[/I] The only people I know who regularly turn this sort of question into debates about the meaning of words - as opposed to the obviously-intended discussion about the nature of some activity - are all ENworld posters. This is not true. There's no general connection between [U]use of adjectives[/U] and [I]literary quality[/i]. Police use adjectives a lot in their public statements. Builders use adjectives to describe their projects. Children use adjectives to describe their bodily sensations. Etc. Using adjectives is part and parcel of describing things. But describing things isn't, per se, a literary activity. To reiterate from the OP: [indent]RPGing requires narration: GMs describe situations, and players declare actions for their PCs that respond to those situations. But I don't think the literary quality of that narration is important.[/indent] The OP does not dispute that RPGing involves describing stuff. [/QUOTE]
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