Tony Vargas
Legend
I've played FATE, you still have mechanical underpinnings for your character's capabilities. It's less, a difference in degree, but not kind, it's still a game.In D&D and D&D-like RPGs, it's numbers on a character sheet. In Primetime Adventures, it's not. In Fate, it's a lot less mechanical and a lot more descriptive. D&D and Pathfinder are just one corner of RPGs.
The /is/ Freestyle RP out there (less the 'G'), and improv theater, for that matter, FWIW.