Wormwood
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RPGs are ... Role Playing Games
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baradtgnome
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I wonder if there is a thread in forums about books, movies, video games, TV shows, etc that argue that they are not 'plots'. This seems to me being oversensitive. What is wrong with an RPG having a plot? Or being organized into chapters. There are some very fine novels that have chapters and writers don't seem to be threatened by that fact.
I concede that RPGs may have some variability in how they are perceived but to me that is a strength not a weakness. So what if the blind men perceive the elephant differently, does that diminish the elephant? I guess I am not troubled so much as the OP.
baradtgnome
First Post
but RPGs are better with bacon, well, because everything is better with bacon.
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amerigoV
Guest
In honor of Simplicity
A group of RPGs head by. They are not noveling or storying. Nor are they experimenting. They don't seem to be making campaigns. As far as you can tell, they're not talking about modules. They neither have movies nor stilts. These RPGs are not chronicles. They have no expression as they don't dally to the card game.
I see it now, the nWoD game, Glee: the Crooning
WayneLigon
Adventurer
They can emulate any and all of those things - sometimes well, sometimes poorly.
Kind of at a loss as to how you can run an RPG that doesn't have at least one of those.
Lord Xtheth
First Post
RPGs are not "Role Playing Games"
RPGs are Rocket Propelled Grenades!
The games that I play with my friends, they are a means to have fun and interesting times. They are great times and great experiences. The games I run ARE pretty Novel, they are Stories, campaigns, modules, etc.
My friends and I enjoy every type of game we play, regardless of how we perceive the game to be played.
(Proof that games CAN be movies)SWSE game said:
Games can be anything you want them to be, restricting them to any one thing in the name of "RPGs are THIS" leads to less fun, IMHO.
The Shaman
First Post
E pur si muove.
