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Quite. My father's current wife once asked me (in a somewhat judgemental tone) if I didn't think it was childish to be eating a certain...

I think the last sentence is the important thing, though there is a large middle space between your two options, and there's nothing...

Agreed. This is what I was trying to get at earlier in terms of this being a game design/game choice problem. It is not an unavoidable...

I've never found discussions of "fun" particularly useful or relevant. It's clearly something people can get from games, but isn't...

I generally think that role-playing is specifically the domain of goal-setting, and that it's symbiotic with the "game" stuff to make...

Monopoly is a lot like thermonuclear war in that the only way to win is not to play at all.

I think there's some confusion here about what "winning" is for exactly. You're focusing a lot on the competitive angle, which I agree...

Yeah, loss conditions tend to be things like "the demon is summoned," "the capital falls," "our political rival is elected," and the...

I think the idea that the players can decide what their goals are is one of the primary attributes of good TRPG play. Upthread @Pedantic...

No it does not. Or, have you never lost playing solitaire?

I actually think roguelikes are a better comparison here than you credit, it's just the player avatar is the party, not any individual...

The idea of winning/losing at TRPGs lines up pretty well with my experience of co-op board games--which are the only ones we play at my...

I personally have found that open ended nature to be the most useful way to explain the design/structural challenges of the RPG vs...

It had its moments. Did a bit of a number on my reading for pleasure (which I've relatively recently gotten back) and utterly ruined me...

Oh that's fascinating! I have a friend working in that exact field. I get updates on absolutely random books.