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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 5669046" data-attributes="member: 56189">No, I think you're onto something that I feel is a recent trend rising from the term "RPG" being used to describe lots of things that aren't really RPG's. I call this the "Diablo Effect". In my mind, Diablo was not an RPG yet these days everyone calls it, and games like it, RPG's.The definition of roleplaying has most definitely changed from what I understood it to be years ago. Now it seems to include just playing a character, whether you engage on anything more than a mechanical system level or not. To me, roleplaying is a step beyond the mechanical and into the theatrical, where you 'act' as your character by being 'in character'. Rolling dice has nothing to do with it.</blockquote>