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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 6413173" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>To me this is just as narrow and limiting as the Wick article itself. I get what you are saying but I honestly think you are really describing a preference you have and then defining the hobby around it. I used to share this view and used to believe in this distinction. I don't anymore. I do agree there is a spectrum at work, with story RPGs on one end and more traditional RPGs on the other. But a lot of games mix and match from various points on the spectrum and few groups are completely on one side or the other. I think overthinking these points, constructing philosophies of gaming around them, has led people to paint themselves into rhetorical corners that not only guide the flow on online flamewars but limit what they permit themselves to enjoy at the gaming table. Personally I am no longer interested in limiting my gaming experience because someone online asserted a particular definition of roleplaying games.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 6413173, member: 85555"] To me this is just as narrow and limiting as the Wick article itself. I get what you are saying but I honestly think you are really describing a preference you have and then defining the hobby around it. I used to share this view and used to believe in this distinction. I don't anymore. I do agree there is a spectrum at work, with story RPGs on one end and more traditional RPGs on the other. But a lot of games mix and match from various points on the spectrum and few groups are completely on one side or the other. I think overthinking these points, constructing philosophies of gaming around them, has led people to paint themselves into rhetorical corners that not only guide the flow on online flamewars but limit what they permit themselves to enjoy at the gaming table. Personally I am no longer interested in limiting my gaming experience because someone online asserted a particular definition of roleplaying games. [/QUOTE]

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