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<blockquote data-quote="Gentlegamer" data-source="post: 3715809" data-attributes="member: 2425">I readily concede this. I have always held that it is the interaction of the participants that creates a role-playing game. The written rules of the game are merely tools and guidelines for the participants to follow and to help the referee adjudicate. Gary Gygax once said of role-playing games, &quot;the secret is that the players don't actually need any rules&quot; (paraphrase).The limiting factor of video games is the lack of a human game master to adjudicate things which makes the possible actions and interactions limited to only those that have been scripted by the programmer. NWN, when a human game master is refereeing for a group of players, becomes a medium by which the participants can play a role-playing game because they are not limited by a programming script, but the game engine itself is not a role-playing game.If you examine the photo posted, the box says &quot;2 - 5 players&quot; (circled in red by the poster)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gentlegamer, post: 3715809, member: 2425"] I readily concede this. I have always held that it is the interaction of the participants that creates a role-playing game. The written rules of the game are merely tools and guidelines for the participants to follow and to help the referee adjudicate. Gary Gygax once said of role-playing games, "the secret is that the players don't actually need any rules" (paraphrase). The limiting factor of video games is the lack of a human game master to adjudicate things which makes the possible actions and interactions limited to only those that have been scripted by the programmer. NWN, when a human game master is refereeing for a group of players, becomes a medium by which the participants can play a role-playing game because they are not limited by a programming script, but the game engine itself is not a role-playing game. If you examine the photo posted, the box says "2 - 5 players" (circled in red by the poster) [/QUOTE]

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