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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9221587" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm not interested in convincing other that they're wrong - I'm interested in refuting assertions that my game is incoherent, laden with cognitive gaps, etc.I mean, I think I know what the "why" is - it's because AD&D looked at through the lens of 3E is taken to have established the paradigm of what a RPG is.I agree more with the second than the first part of this: because it's not that the game defines this - as has been quoted in this thread, 4e D&D has clear rules and definitions.It's because a certain tradition is taken to be what RPGing is as such.</blockquote>