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<blockquote data-quote="Col_Pladoh" data-source="post: 3663612" data-attributes="member: 796">Gee!Whatever happened to dialog between PCs and monsters?Does anyone recall my humerous little anecdote, &quot;The Giant's Bag&quot;? No computer-run game short of the Starship Enterprise's holodeck could begin to duplicate that sort of play, and encounters of that sort were common in the play of the Greyhawk Campaign...as they should be in all true RPG campaigns.No hireling or henchman was a mere puppet doing what the PC demanded. They have minds of their own, talk back, are sometimes rebellious or cowardly or reckless.This debate is certainly a waste of time and effort, because while it is demonstrable that the computer can not curently provide an RPG, those that wish such games were classed as that form of game will attempt to define the RPG to suiyt their view, thus make the dead electroinic &quot;RPG simulation&quot; game into the living human-managed and all-oarticipant interactive RPG.So I am out of here <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Cheers,Gary</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Col_Pladoh, post: 3663612, member: 796"] Gee! Whatever happened to dialog between PCs and monsters? Does anyone recall my humerous little anecdote, "The Giant's Bag"? No computer-run game short of the Starship [I]Enterprise's[/I] holodeck could begin to duplicate that sort of play, and encounters of that sort were common in the play of the Greyhawk Campaign...as they should be in all true RPG campaigns. No hireling or henchman was a mere puppet doing what the PC demanded. They have minds of their own, talk back, are sometimes rebellious or cowardly or reckless. This debate is certainly a waste of time and effort, because while it is demonstrable that the computer can not curently provide an RPG, those that wish such games were classed as that form of game will attempt to define the RPG to suiyt their view, thus make the dead electroinic "RPG simulation" game into the living human-managed and all-oarticipant interactive RPG. So I am out of here ;) Cheers, Gary [/QUOTE]

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