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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2322628" data-attributes="member: 32740">While the label "roleplaying game" may have come to be attached to online (or even offline) games like Everquest, World of Warcraft or Diablo these are NOT roleplaying games in the same sense that D&D is a roleplaying game.  Those computer games are "roleplaying" in the sense that you assume the role of an individual character - but it is a character and a world that is ultimately incredibly limited in the amount and type of INTERACTION that is possible between the player character, the NPC's and the environment of the game world itself.  D&D has no such limitations. A computer RPG server is NOT like an incredibly efficient DM because you cannot interact with that server except in VERY limited and carefully defined ways.  A real live DM on the other hand can take the role of ANY character, ANY creature and can rule on your characters interaction with ANY aspect of the game world environment.  Your character can EXCEED the predetermined limitations of the game world because the DM is there to expand it in every way desired AT THAT VERY MOMENT.  There is no comparison between a computer and a DM except at the most basic level of game-control functions.</blockquote>