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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7476395" data-attributes="member: 6775031">I'm going to assume that the quotation marks are there because you actually do understand the difference between role-playing and storytelling. Even if you assume a big tent approach to the hobby, and try to pretend that story games are the same thing as role-playing games in a general sense, the point is irrelevant because we're specifically talking about D&D here.D&D is a role-playing game by the less-broad definition, where the players make decisions as their characters. D&D is not a storytelling game, where players have any agency whatsoever beyond role-playing their characters; the story is, at best, incidental to the role-playing. I only mention it here, because the poster I had originally quoted had gotten their definitions precisely reversed. The degree by which meta-game thinking should be rejected (as is explicitly called out within the rulebook) is otherwise beyond the purview of this thread.</blockquote>