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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 6413162" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I think any working definition of roleplaying game needs to be able to encompass early D&amp;D as well as new versions of D&amp;D and other roleplaying games people play. We can't limit the definition to OD&amp;D alone. That is a great game and perfectly fine way to play but it isn't the only way, and I think we all need to start being more honest about how diverse and broad the hobby is. It definitely goes beyond my own personal tastes and preferences and I just don't feel the need to define it rigidly around those. We are arguing over really small territory here and I feel like it is constricting the hobby rather than expanding it (because I can assure you the distinctions people are fighting over make little to no sense to people from the outside looking in). What I think we need is for the hobby to include folks like you buy also folks like Hussar. We are all role-players. One segment of the community doesn't get to decide who belongs and who doesn't because they have an argument based on etymology or root terms. What matters is how the term roleplaying game is used by people in general. When I see folks playing OD&amp;D I see people engaged in a roleplaying game. When I see folks playing Numenera, I see people engaged in a roleplaying game. When I see folks playing savage worlds, 4E or GURPS, I see people engaged in a roleplaying game.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 6413162, member: 85555"] I think any working definition of roleplaying game needs to be able to encompass early D&D as well as new versions of D&D and other roleplaying games people play. We can't limit the definition to OD&D alone. That is a great game and perfectly fine way to play but it isn't the only way, and I think we all need to start being more honest about how diverse and broad the hobby is. It definitely goes beyond my own personal tastes and preferences and I just don't feel the need to define it rigidly around those. We are arguing over really small territory here and I feel like it is constricting the hobby rather than expanding it (because I can assure you the distinctions people are fighting over make little to no sense to people from the outside looking in). What I think we need is for the hobby to include folks like you buy also folks like Hussar. We are all role-players. One segment of the community doesn't get to decide who belongs and who doesn't because they have an argument based on etymology or root terms. What matters is how the term roleplaying game is used by people in general. When I see folks playing OD&D I see people engaged in a roleplaying game. When I see folks playing Numenera, I see people engaged in a roleplaying game. When I see folks playing savage worlds, 4E or GURPS, I see people engaged in a roleplaying game. [/QUOTE]

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