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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9505554" data-attributes="member: 6779196">It depends on the context of their usage. Their definitions are not necessarily synonymous, but once again we’re running into the complexity of language. I would say that a person who decides to play a game with rules they might not like but are willing to tolerate is necessarily agreeing to play by those rules. Especially in the context of roleplaying games, which are played under a shared social contract. Contract is definitionally synonymous with agreement. If you are playing in an RPG, you are agreeing to the terms of its social contract, which includes whatever the rules of that game are decided to be. One could try to negotiate for different terms, and one could agree to terms despite having some objectives to them. But one can’t, in my understanding, play in the game without agreeing to the terms of its social contract.They may have connotational differences, depending on how they’re being used, but I think in this context, an agreement to play in a game is an agreement to the rules of that game, and any objections to that statement are based on baggage one may be carrying over from some other context.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 9505554, member: 6779196"] It depends on the context of their usage. Their definitions are not necessarily synonymous, but once again we’re running into the complexity of language. I would say that a person who decides to play a game with rules they might not like but are willing to tolerate is necessarily agreeing to play by those rules. Especially in the context of roleplaying games, which are played under a shared social contract. Contract [I]is[/I] definitionally synonymous with agreement. If you are playing in an RPG, you are agreeing to the terms of its social contract, which includes whatever the rules of that game are decided to be. One could try to negotiate for different terms, and one could agree to terms despite having some objectives to them. But one can’t, in my understanding, play in the game without agreeing to the terms of its social contract. They may have connotational differences, depending on how they’re being used, but I think in this context, an agreement to play in a game is an agreement to the rules of that game, and any objections to that statement are based on baggage one may be carrying over from some other context. [/QUOTE]

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