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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ngenius" data-source="post: 1570539" data-attributes="member: 14679">Changing RPGs to hobbies will not improve their popularityI wanted to reply mythusmage directly, but felt the above quote is a better option. Firstly, games are supposed to be short and fun, hence they are called games. Making Role Playing Games into Role Playing Hobbies makes them far too complex to attract new gamers or hobbyists as you would want to call them. Besides there is a difference between games and competitions. Games can be fun and do not need to be competitions. And even RPGs have goals or objectives towards which players must strive, hence we have rule systems. If we simply wanted stories, we can write fiction or act in drama groups. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> There are many hobbies in the world, and I personally have several hobbies, including collecting fantasy art and playing online computer games. Therefore to call Role Playing Games by your preferred name of Role Playing Hobbies simply makes new players get more confused and consider Role Playing Hobbies as something of a drama group. For that, you can opt for Live-Action Roleplaying, but for the rest of us who do not take this hobby as seriously as you do, Role Playing Games is a more user-friendly term, associated with the very popular fun term called "games" to which even small children can relate positively. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Since naming RPGs is so important to mythusmage, may I suggest that RPGs as I see them today, are more of Role Playing Fictional Life Simulations, since they are based on fictional worlds and are fundamental simulations of life, as played out or translated by the participants taking part in these fictional world environments.    <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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