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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 7763155" data-attributes="member: 158">And yet, here we are, &quot;No True Scotsman&quot;-ing our way through this very circumstance, people playing an RPG in a way different from what others think it SHOULD be played, because &quot;it can't be done and still be called that thing.&quot; People used to play the old RPGA for points, and still roleplayed just fine through it, and people still currently play in organized play like Pathfinder Society. Although there are plenty of people in the &quot;Stop talking to my experience points&quot; crowd (as the Happy Jack's podcasters call them), there are plenty who aren't, as well.Rather than saying it's impossible to do so, I'm more interested in seeing what can be done with the medium. As I said before, eleven years ago people said that the concept of RPG Actual Play streams or recordings were pointless or would never garner any interest - and there's a burgeoning movement of that very concept today, brought by the innovations of streaming services and nerd culture, the former being unfeasible fifteen years ago, and the latter being inconceivable thirty years ago. If it fails, it fails -- but &quot;no such thing as RPGSports&quot; is trying to denigrate it before one even sees how it might play out in reality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 7763155, member: 158"] And yet, here we are, "No True Scotsman"-ing our way through this very circumstance, people playing an RPG in a way different from what others think it SHOULD be played, because "it can't be done and still be called that thing." People used to play the old RPGA for points, and still roleplayed just fine through it, and people still currently play in organized play like Pathfinder Society. Although there are plenty of people in the "Stop talking to my experience points" crowd (as the Happy Jack's podcasters call them), there are plenty who aren't, as well. Rather than saying it's impossible to do so, I'm more interested in seeing what can be done with the medium. As I said before, eleven years ago people said that the concept of RPG Actual Play streams or recordings were pointless or would never garner any interest - and there's a burgeoning movement of that very concept today, brought by the innovations of streaming services and nerd culture, the former being unfeasible fifteen years ago, and the latter being inconceivable thirty years ago. If it fails, it fails -- but "no such thing as RPGSports" is trying to denigrate it before one even sees how it might play out in reality. [/QUOTE]

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