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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 7611201"><p>I think there are three basic meanings of Literary being used by different posters. The first is simply 'written works' (A). The second written works aspiring to high art (B) and the third is written works of quality or resembling those found in a novel (C). You and Maxperson seem to be emphasizing C, but Maxperson is getting to see by way of A. Pemerton is speaking strictly about B, which I think is the more immediately recognizable meaning of literary. Wordcraft is also pretty self explanatory and an existing word (and I am definitely not one to advocate for the proliferation of jargon because it clouds discussion). In this case, I don't think Pemerton was being at all cloudy about what he meant, and he didn't equivocate. He stuck to B. There has been tremendous equivocation by others advocating that RPGs should be like B or C, but done by trying to establish that A is the case. Also, Pemerton is making a negative claim about B (RPGs generally are not B), and you and Maxperson are making positive claims about A, B and C (but again, this only seems to be done by trying to prove A is the case, then equivocating onto B and C).</p></blockquote><p></p>