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Yeah. I've seen disparagement from the traditional players as well. I can say that I have seen much more from the narrative folks...

No. It really depends on what you are doing. Pretend cops and robbers, sure. That's childish. RPGs? No. That's not inherently...

This thread certainly goes right round, baby, right round.

I've had people on this site tell me that if I would only try the narrative style of play, I would understand why it's so much better.

I just find the term GM decides to not capture the nuances around how the gm decides and how the players influence those decisions...

I don't see it as more mature to accept disparaging comments just because people refuse to stop using them. You've apparently become...

It's pretty obvious that traditional simulationist play is pretty much the same as playing with your GI Joe dolls and narrativist play...

"the term “childish play” is not intended to be disparaging. I do not think that playing in a childish manner is a shameful activity. If...

Not RPGing, traditional and simulationist play. Other styles don't get the same treatment. Traditional play is "playing to find out...

What I find most objectionable is that mainstream RPGing tends to get associated with terms for simple Children's games in general.

I assume that at this point anyone that has been in this thread a while is not seeing well over half the posts ;) Some combination of...

The original people who coined those terms were also using them in a derogatory manner. I guess it's okay to use derogatory terms if you...

Did you read the quoted text I was responding to?

You have completely misunderstood. Those are the same. The implication is childishness and has nothing to do with gender. Cops and...

[Random Person's] views are clearly garbage. Now, just to be clear, I don't mean that disparagingly, because one person's trash is...