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<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 7647790" data-attributes="member: 17106">Yeah.To add on to the book/movie analogy, I do think that computer games are very different from tabletop rpgs. That being said, they can also be synergistic-as can books and movies. People (except possibly for addicts, which is a concern with WoW) generally engage in a number of diverse forms of entertainment.My time spent playing Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Dragon Age, and so on is not a replacement for my D&amp;D sessions. However, I learned a lot about the D&amp;D rules and the tone of the setting from BG, and a got a lot of ideas for my campaigns from these games (and from books, movies, TV, etc.). Almost all D&amp;D players seem to play computer games, as well as to be engaged in high-quality dramatic fiction in some form, and engaging strategy gaming in some form. I conclude that MMOs are different and perhaps even opposed to tabletop rpgs, but that modern people are entirely capable of multitasking.So I think the Dragon Age rpg has it right, for example. It's a different experience with different rules than the cRPG. It is, however, a fairly successful and engaging tabletop rpg experience. If D&amp;D was run competently, had quality rules and an appropriate license, and had a tie-in computer game of similar quality to Dragon Age (the first one), I think it would be doing even better than DA. That isn't happening, unfortunately.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 7647790, member: 17106"] Yeah. To add on to the book/movie analogy, I do think that computer games are very different from tabletop rpgs. That being said, they can also be synergistic-as can books and movies. People (except possibly for addicts, which is a concern with WoW) generally engage in a number of diverse forms of entertainment. My time spent playing Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Dragon Age, and so on is not a replacement for my D&D sessions. However, I learned a lot about the D&D rules and the tone of the setting from BG, and a got a lot of ideas for my campaigns from these games (and from books, movies, TV, etc.). Almost all D&D players seem to play computer games, as well as to be engaged in high-quality dramatic fiction in some form, and engaging strategy gaming in some form. I conclude that MMOs are different and perhaps even opposed to tabletop rpgs, but that modern people are entirely capable of multitasking. So I think the Dragon Age rpg has it right, for example. It's a different experience with different rules than the cRPG. It is, however, a fairly successful and engaging tabletop rpg experience. If D&D was run competently, had quality rules and an appropriate license, and had a tie-in computer game of similar quality to Dragon Age (the first one), I think it would be doing even better than DA. That isn't happening, unfortunately. [/QUOTE]

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