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<blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 7619389" data-attributes="member: 1282"><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Histrionic much? Look, if you find this so "very tiring," what, then, is the purpose of your reentry into the discussion every few hundred posts? Clearly you must derive something from this discussion beyond the occasional impulse to meet head and keyboard?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>As I stated pretty early in this thread, I believe any attempt to define some immutable, univeral definition for "literary/literature" is a fool's errand. What matters for this thread is not fixing some definition but rather [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION]'s argument that what makes TTRPGs unique and distinct from literature is the framing of situations as a call to action on the part of the PC-inhabiting-player over descriptive flourishes as performance for performance's sake.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>While this thread has occasionally offered some other interesting discussion, I don't believe squabbling over definitions has provided anything really useful.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>So, no, I won't define "exactly the intent behind the term 'literary'" beyond what I have said above: this thread's main thrust is about framing engaging calls to action as core to TTRPGing over performance for performance's sake (though, and perhaps I separate myself from pemerton on this, I don't think this is a universal statement: I think there are gamestyles and players who value performance for performance's sake over the engaging call to action).</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darkbard, post: 7619389, member: 1282"] [I] Histrionic much? Look, if you find this so "very tiring," what, then, is the purpose of your reentry into the discussion every few hundred posts? Clearly you must derive something from this discussion beyond the occasional impulse to meet head and keyboard? As I stated pretty early in this thread, I believe any attempt to define some immutable, univeral definition for "literary/literature" is a fool's errand. What matters for this thread is not fixing some definition but rather [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION]'s argument that what makes TTRPGs unique and distinct from literature is the framing of situations as a call to action on the part of the PC-inhabiting-player over descriptive flourishes as performance for performance's sake. While this thread has occasionally offered some other interesting discussion, I don't believe squabbling over definitions has provided anything really useful. So, no, I won't define "exactly the intent behind the term 'literary'" beyond what I have said above: this thread's main thrust is about framing engaging calls to action as core to TTRPGing over performance for performance's sake (though, and perhaps I separate myself from pemerton on this, I don't think this is a universal statement: I think there are gamestyles and players who value performance for performance's sake over the engaging call to action).[/i] [/QUOTE]
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