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[Tony Vargas]

(B) It was Jazz but just not known by that name

Not that familiar with music history, I suppose the music was whatever the people making it called it. And why wouldn't we respect their take on their own art?

 

[Cadence]

Not that familiar with music history, I suppose the music was whatever the people making it called it.

It just seems an odd take to me that a thing can be sitting there, and its fundamental nature changes when someone gives it a new name - even if no other property of it changed.

 

[Tony Vargas]

It just seems an odd take to me that a thing can be sitting there, and it's nature changes when someone gives it a new name - even if no other property of it changed.

Quite the opposite. It's nature doesn't change because someone made a new conceptual box or pigeon hole that it could fit in.

0D&D was a wargame. That didn't change because a new category was created that it also fit into (a new category created, for it to fit into). Nor does being designed, published, and played as a wargame deny it's membership in that new category.

 

[Cadence]

Quite the opposite. It's nature doesn't change because someone made a new conceptual box or pigeon hole that it could fit in.

Ok .

0D&D was a wargame. That didn't change because a new category was created that it also fit into (a new category created, for it to fit into). Nor does being designed, published, and played as a wargame deny it's membership in that new category.

So OD&D is also an RPG?

 

[Guest 7042500]

I think we should tax people who stand in water.

 

[Cadence]

I think we should tax people who stand in water.

Ok. I'm curious now.

 

[overgeeked]

Ok. I'm curious now.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus. S02E02. I think.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/001ee2e6-ae06-4fcb-acf6-d2498122ab31

 

[Tony Vargas]

So OD&D is also an RPG?

0D&D was a wargame. After it was created, it was also called an RPG, a category invented for it, and since then many more RPGs have been created, and the category is huge, the definition expansive, and few games today called TTRPGs, share the with 0D&D, the qualities that made it a wargame. Likewise, very few of 0D&D's fellow wargames could be called RPGs, even in retrospect, in spite of sharing many qualities with it.

 

[MGibster]

Aside from a few sketches, the original Monty Python television series wasn't very good.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Not that familiar with music history, I suppose the music was whatever the people making it called it. And why wouldn't we respect their take on their own art?

So what something is based entirely on what it's called?