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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4394198" data-attributes="member: 3887">I said that D&amp;D was a game. I said nothing about playing it as if it were a board game. It's still a game.You shouldn't assume someone doesn't understand something because you took their words out of context.Great games are made by the participants, not by corporate entities or cottage industries. I think so too. My groups latest homebrew --a work in progress-- is posted here (2nd link in my .sig). In all absence of modesty, check it out, it's more or less wonderful (though it's not all mine, it's a true collaborative effort). No, &quot;masturbation&quot; is a better term. And I say that as an inveterate masturbator. In a fantasy world-building sense, of course...I've described those acts as both 'games' and 'masturbatory' at various times in the past, but really, this isn't the right venue for a discussion of aesthetic theory or the creative process. What I meant was applying 'political correctness' to games is ludicrous (are chess and backgammon PC because each side begins with an equal disposition of forces?). That was the original context.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 4394198, member: 3887"] I said that D&D was a game. I said nothing about playing it as if it were a board game. It's still a game. You shouldn't assume someone doesn't understand something because you took their words out of context. Great games are made by the participants, not by corporate entities or cottage industries. I think so too. My groups latest homebrew --a work in progress-- is posted here (2nd link in my .sig). In all absence of modesty, check it out, it's more or less wonderful (though it's not all mine, it's a true collaborative effort). No, "masturbation" is a better term. And I say that as an inveterate masturbator. In a fantasy world-building sense, of course... I've described those acts as both 'games' and 'masturbatory' at various times in the past, but really, this isn't the right venue for a discussion of aesthetic theory or the creative process. What I meant was applying 'political correctness' to games is ludicrous (are chess and backgammon PC because each side begins with an equal disposition of forces?). That was the original context. [/QUOTE]

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