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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5173079" data-attributes="member: 22779">I gotta go with Doug and the Prof on this one.&nbsp; I'm a big tent kinda guy.&nbsp; To me, defining RPG's is kinda like defining genre - a definition based on the edges doesn't work.&nbsp; The best definitions of genre start at the center.&nbsp; Same with RPG's.I'm explaining this badly.&nbsp; Think of a forest.&nbsp; We all know what a forest looks like.&nbsp; Now, define forest.&nbsp; Trees per square metre?&nbsp; Age of the trees?&nbsp; Amount of sunlight filtering down?&nbsp; I dunno.&nbsp; I do know that when I'm standing somewhere and all I see are trees around me, I'm in a forest.RPG's work the same way.&nbsp; There are some things that you can point to and say, yup, that's an RPG at work.&nbsp; D&amp;D in any form pretty much fits this bill, as does any fairly traditional game that follows similar paradigms - campaign play, non-competitive, etc.&nbsp; There's lots of stuff at the edges that might shade over into something else.&nbsp; MMO's for example.Meh, I figure our hobby is small enough that when we start being exclusionary based on nothing more than personal tastes, we're just shooting ourselves in the foot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5173079, member: 22779"] I gotta go with Doug and the Prof on this one. I'm a big tent kinda guy. To me, defining RPG's is kinda like defining genre - a definition based on the edges doesn't work. The best definitions of genre start at the center. Same with RPG's. I'm explaining this badly. Think of a forest. We all know what a forest looks like. Now, define forest. Trees per square metre? Age of the trees? Amount of sunlight filtering down? I dunno. I do know that when I'm standing somewhere and all I see are trees around me, I'm in a forest. RPG's work the same way. There are some things that you can point to and say, yup, that's an RPG at work. D&D in any form pretty much fits this bill, as does any fairly traditional game that follows similar paradigms - campaign play, non-competitive, etc. There's lots of stuff at the edges that might shade over into something else. MMO's for example. Meh, I figure our hobby is small enough that when we start being exclusionary based on nothing more than personal tastes, we're just shooting ourselves in the foot. [/QUOTE]

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