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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8202666" data-attributes="member: 10148">Huh, wow, the first post does propose that RPGs were never invented either. I missed that all this time. That is a much, much tougher question.Well, for starters, that knocks CYOA and adventure PC games out of the equation as a direct inspiration. Those peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. And I guess for some reason, then, no equivalent to RPGs ever pops up in the video game space either. They stay either focused on action games, or looser adventure/interactive fiction games, never coalescing into the RPG concept. Miniatures wargames and board games somehow never spawn RPG equivalents before 2021 either.Honestly, if RPGs haven't happened by 2021, I'm not sure they're going to in any form we remotely recognize. More likely it'd just be some form of online LARPing with a heavy action video game influence, maybe translated into a home board game version (that's really just a party game with prompts).(To be honest, I think the timeline where just D&D is deleted has more to chew on...)</blockquote>