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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3665787" data-attributes="member: 18280">I honestly don't know, and any guess I might make would be pulled from my.....ear.&nbsp; <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=";)" />Given your definition, I would agree that video games may be RPGs.&nbsp; But, please recall that the context of the question arises in relation to Mr. Gygax's comments about the decline of RPGs.&nbsp; And, given that context, no matter how many people call apples oranges, saying that there are a whole lot of apples out there doesn't mean that oranges haven't declined.It is certainly &quot;permissable&quot; for you to call anything you like a role-playing game.&nbsp; Just as it is &quot;permissable&quot; for you to restrict that definition however you like.&nbsp; I could go back several pages on this thread and find my saying the same thing in several different ways.&nbsp; However, in context of Mr. Gygax's comments and the refutation thereof this is, IMHO, immaterial.So, yes, I think that Mr. Gygax's definition is the preferable one.&nbsp; And, yes, I agree (once more) that another definition of the same term is now in use that encompasses things that the first does not.&nbsp; However, that does not make the items in the second definition RPGs under the first.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 3665787, member: 18280"] I honestly don't know, and any guess I might make would be pulled from my.....ear. ;) Given your definition, I would agree that video games may be RPGs. But, please recall that the context of the question arises in relation to Mr. Gygax's comments about the decline of RPGs. And, given that context, no matter how many people call apples oranges, saying that there are a whole lot of apples out there doesn't mean that oranges haven't declined. It is certainly "permissable" for you to call anything you like a role-playing game. Just as it is "permissable" for you to restrict that definition however you like. I could go back several pages on this thread and find my saying the same thing in several different ways. However, [i]in context of Mr. Gygax's comments and the refutation thereof[/i] this is, IMHO, immaterial. So, yes, I think that Mr. Gygax's definition is the preferable one. And, yes, I agree (once more) that [i]another[/i] definition of the same term is now in use that encompasses things that the first does not. However, that does not make the items in the second definition RPGs under the first. RC [/QUOTE]

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