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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 5291171">Tabletop ANYTHING has been dying for a while since the internet age.  I'm certain there are quite a few here who have found they've begun to participate in more online RP sessions than IRL ones.  Computer games give something to gamers that they would otherwise have had to do themselves, world, story, NPC creation.  For all intents and purposes, it is a pre-boxed RP story, with fancy graphics and you can play when you want and stop when you want.It still however lacks what RPs have widely available.  That is: the utilization of imagination, and on-the-fly gaming.  If you drop into a game, and you want to do X, that game may not be programmed to allow you to do X, however, in RP gameland, you can do X, assuming that you can find, or devise proper mechanics for it, or suitably role-play it.Yes, for the player who has never once been interested in anything outside your basic medieval fantasy, someone who has never wanted to play anything more than the knight, or the assassin, or the druid, then yes, video games have everything they'll ever need.But for everyone who wants more, even a little bit, the video game will never let them do that.  And they find the freedom they want in tabletop games.But by nature, tabletop games have always struggled against the argument "why do I need so-in-so's manual to make up this game?"  But then that is a typical market, you need to show people that it's better to play within the game's limit, than try to make your own.  Video games and tabletops have the same strategy, they just offer different levels of freedom.  People who desire less freedom in their games end up going to the pre-packaged stuff, while people who want more go to the more free-form stuff.Eventually, I'm sure tabletops will die, but they will be replaced, IMO, with a similar system that takes place online.  Once you can develop a 3D animation system that allows you to create any kind of character you can imagine, any kind of work you can imagine, then "tabletop" will transition to "desktop".</blockquote>

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