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So I'll grant you the efficiency argument, but not that a move from more efficient to less efficient explains the function of RPG rules...

Not what I mean by story. Series of evens is a story. It might not necessarily be a good story, but a story nevertheless. But we are...

So, in any RPG I've ever played, there will be long stretches of gameplay where the rules are not used. Yet RPG is still being played...

Hmm. There's a lot of good stuff going on there. I'm not sure that the rules make RPG play possible in quite the same way that the rules...

Name fail. Big time name fail.

I don't think that by that definition RPGS are games. A lot of things commonly considered games would not be games. And I think that...

Is a travelogue not also a story?

Yeah to me too, but but I see that as subset of "collaborative storytelling" as in a some sort of series of interesting event, (thus "a...

Well, people commonly refer such activity as a game. But if we cannot agree what defines a game, we certainly are in good company. It...

In that case almost everyone's vote should be 5, then, as in pretty much every campaign there's sooner or later going to come a time or...

"game" is a vague term. I would still call it a game, given that I would call a LARP a game too, and those often have basically no rules.

Sure, but that is greatly impacted by what is going on in the world, which is largely decided by the GM, as well as the rules governing...

I voted 4. I use gritty rests with sanctuary requirement, and there usually is some stuff going on which means that you cannot just...

There's also a personal normalcy bias, I think. Very few people think their own table is weird, so we tend to rate ourselves in the...

Is it controversial? Like the basic structure of RPG is that a GM describes the situation, the players describe what their characters...