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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5809417" data-attributes="member: 10479">No definition I've ever given of roleplaying is restricted to dialogue.  Here's one from another thread.  "From my perspective, roleplaying in tabletop roleplaying games, is the first person interaction by one or more players (through their characters), with a virtual setting, its inhabitants, and one another, by means of a facilitator who acts as the sensory conduit for the player characters.  The players detail the actions of their characters with first person narrative and/or dialogue, the facilitator describes the consequences (perhaps introducing additional exposition and elements of conflict), and the process continues in like fashion."  As I have also said above, third person narrative doesn't rise to the level of roleplaying.  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_narrative#Third-person_view" target="_blank">Here's</a> a quick summary of third-person view that explains why this is not an in-character perspective.  As it states -While that is a literary definition, it plays well with the concept of roleplaying as it pertains to tabletop roleplaying games.  The two examples you give in the other thread are both first person, one dialogue and the other narrative, and both are examples of roleplaying in a tabletop roleplaying game.</blockquote>