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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nlogue" data-source="post: 3031637" data-attributes="member: 41806">Also the issue of every encounter being a "roleplaying" encounter because its a roleplaying game is purely semantic.  I "roleplay" when I play board games...is that still "boarding."  We played a Game of Thrones Board Game marathon last night for my B-day celebration (I am getting old, but that's another story), and I took great pleasure in roleplaying everyone from Cersei, Tywin, Tyrion and Jaime Lannister to the Queen of Thorns and Loras Tyrell and Stannis and Renly Baratheon.  It was a truly awesome time!  Now I don't know if its fair to tell me we weren't roleplaying just because we were playing a board game, and I'm also not sure it isn't just a semantic song-and-dance to say everything you do when you are playing a "roleplaying" game is roleplaying.  Is getting up to snag another mountain dew roleplaying...probably not.  Is placing your mini on the battlemat roleplaying...I don't think it is really.  Is moving your mini around as you calculate the best way to destroy the opposition roleplaying...not in my book, but it might be for some people I guess.  I think calling everything roleplaying because the word is in the descriptor for the game is one way of looking at it, but I think it's fair for others to create a distinction between playing the role of a character and shedding that role to get down on some dice and strategy (also a lot of fun!).  Just me two cents by the way, and I am totally digging this discussion, so if I am offending anyone I certainly don't mean to.  I want to stress that the way I like to game ain't the right way - it's just a way.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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