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The good MMORPGs aren't, either.Dragonblade said:Unlike MMORPGs, TRPGs are not just about killing stuff and levelling up.
If you played WoW, you'd know it's an intensely story-driven experience. The first encounters a human character has in the Northshire Abbey area put him into a storyline that can eventually lead to facing down a surprising villain who's been behind many of the post-war difficulties facing the kingdom. There are fights against mobs of thugs, dungeon crawls, brawls in the city streets, and finally, facing down a dragon. And all of it is about discovering what's happened to the Kingdom of Stormwind and why.
No MMORPG will ever be able to match that.
Words like "ever" and "never" should probably be left out of this discussion, since they imply something will be true until the end of time, which is an assertion that hopefully no one is making with a straight face.With a TRPG, I can run a satisfying game session from nothing more than a one sentence plot description. That can never be done with a CRPG.