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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 6413442" data-attributes="member: 40166">So isomorphism was the correct word. RPGs are not games for the purposes of combinatorial game theory, as they involve randomness. If you can find a way to express such a simple game as poker as a code, go ahead, but I'm pretty sure that's beyond anything that anyone has studied. In My Life with Master, you have two stats, and you roll dice based on those stats to manipulate the world around you; in these rolls, you can only get the larger dice if you convince the GM they're situationally appropriate. If you are successful enough in your dice rolls, you can kill the BBEG, with the how well you survive depending on your final stats. That's an RPG by pretty much any definition. It's also a story game. You can say there is virtually no relationship between the two all you want, it doesn't make it true.The only way this is true is if you define &quot;playing games&quot; so that it is true.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 6413442, member: 40166"] So isomorphism was the correct word. RPGs are not games for the purposes of combinatorial game theory, as they involve randomness. If you can find a way to express such a simple game as poker as a code, go ahead, but I'm pretty sure that's beyond anything that anyone has studied. In My Life with Master, you have two stats, and you roll dice based on those stats to manipulate the world around you; in these rolls, you can only get the larger dice if you convince the GM they're situationally appropriate. If you are successful enough in your dice rolls, you can kill the BBEG, with the how well you survive depending on your final stats. That's an RPG by pretty much any definition. It's also a story game. You can say there is virtually no relationship between the two all you want, it doesn't make it true. The only way this is true is if you define "playing games" so that it is true. [/QUOTE]

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