hawkeyefan
Legend
I’m a coach for my son’s soccer team. The season just started. Before it did, we had to go out to the fields and place the goals in their proper spots and put the nets up on them and draw the lines for the field. All necessary for play to take place. But no one would call that “playing soccer”.
When I was a kid, my grandpa had an old chess set of stone pieces that I would play with when I was at his house. I’d take the pieces and create my own stories with them and act them out like any kid playing with action figures or dolls or other toys. I was playing… but I wasn’t playing chess. Denying that the purpose of the chess pieces and board was other than playing chess just because some kid might use it to some other purpose seems rather pointless.
Calling every interaction with the hobby of RPGs “play” is just silly. Stop it.
Claiming that anything other than play is the purpose of RPG materials is similarly silly. They’re games. Games are for play. It’s not complicated.
If you enjoy engaging in RPG materials with something other than play in mind, that’s perfectly fine… enjoy yourself. But that doesn’t change anything I said above.
When I was a kid, my grandpa had an old chess set of stone pieces that I would play with when I was at his house. I’d take the pieces and create my own stories with them and act them out like any kid playing with action figures or dolls or other toys. I was playing… but I wasn’t playing chess. Denying that the purpose of the chess pieces and board was other than playing chess just because some kid might use it to some other purpose seems rather pointless.
Calling every interaction with the hobby of RPGs “play” is just silly. Stop it.
Claiming that anything other than play is the purpose of RPG materials is similarly silly. They’re games. Games are for play. It’s not complicated.
If you enjoy engaging in RPG materials with something other than play in mind, that’s perfectly fine… enjoy yourself. But that doesn’t change anything I said above.
