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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emerikol" data-source="post: 8220666" data-attributes="member: 6698278">I think one problem is that roleplaying is not really one thing.  There are various styles as evidenced here and there are different games that are a cross section to those styles.   It's why in the past, I tried to come up with some sort of language to describe each style but I soon learned that there was resistance to categorization.   It's kind of like roleplaying is racquet sports.   It started out we had tennis but now we have table tennis, racquetball, and pickleball too.  There is a broad similarity in that you are hitting a ball back and forth and trying to get it past your opponent.  There are also vast differences and people enjoy some more than others.  We should be happy this is true for the reasons you quoted Gygax above.</blockquote>