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Given the terms you used, I'd call RPGs "story generators." IMO there should be no inherent plot or story, but the GM should provide...

This As a DM I want to set up a situation and then let the players solve it. I dont have a correct/preferred way for it to be solved...

Yep. Good summary and your last point is probably true too. And when I say RPGs generate a story, it could be via any of these methods...

It seems to me that there may be a profitable distinction to be made between: 1. We are creating story with planned direction - 'OK in...

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.