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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7637996" data-attributes="member: 996">Your definition of role-playing is simply too narrow.  Especially given the need to go all caps and bold like some sort of outraged Darth Vader voice. There's at least a 3-way distinction.  There are games that aren't role-playing, there are instances of playing a role that are in no way games......and there are role-playing games, that integrate (not merely juxtapose) the two.  In an RPG the fact that you are playing a game and the fact that you are playing a role are inseparable.    OneTrueWayists tend to want to define and judge narrowly.  That which confirms to their way is True Role-playing,  that which does not is other, to be dismissed out of hand. Thank you for your honesty.I don't think it's that unusual, outside of the loci of magic and combat, D&D traditionally leaves us essentially Freestyle'n.</blockquote>