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Let's spell this out and we'll see if it holds together. "Roleplaying games can be games, but they don't have to be". You see the...

Not to my mind. The story is created in the telling/writing/filming/whatever process, because IMO stories need some degree of pointed...

That's just the way it is sometimes. However, neither of us play at the same table, and neither do of us are insisting the other person...

Sure. The point is that it had to occur first.

Not when I use it. I'm quite happy to take Suits' definition: I don't really hold with the notion of "non-Suitsian" games, I just think...

But IMO it couldn't have been a story until you played through it with characters and therefore had a story to tell.

I'm sorry, I legitimately didn't see anything in your description as a game. I apologize if that comes off as insulting. Can you...

when you're telling it afterwards, yes.

See my post. Without some rules and resolution as far as I'm concerned, its not a roleplaying game, its just freeform roleplaying that...

The ones completely lacking in rules I wouldn't call a game either.

See, a big part of our difference here is that I do not see the core activity of RPGs being collaborative storytelling. Instead I see...

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...

I think my TTRPG sessions are like documentaries. Some stuff happens, then after the session you can recount the series of events that...

No, that is not my experience. My experience is that I am interacting with the setting and the other characters through the medium of my...

What exactly is "the middle of LotR"? The Two Towers is a story, if an incomplete and less satisfying one than I'd like. It is not the...