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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 4994176" data-attributes="member: 2205">I'm not sniping, I'm accurately describing the evolution of the term from my perspective.  I first saw it about a year ago in a thread on another messageboard which turned into a complete dogpile in short order because the person trying to coin the term had an elitist "only sandbox OD&D is actually roleplaying" attitude.Other than that, the term had some currency at theRPGsite where RPG Pundit coined it along with his poorly formulated "SWINE theory".  Until very recently, I've only seen the term storygames associated with a militant fringe OSR community that rejects any other playstyle as heretical and needing a new label so as not to sully the label of "roleplaying game" with blasphemous ideas.For the most part, that's still where I see the term nine times out of ten, but in very recent months, it's finally apparently gained some traction as a legitimate label.  I'm still not very clear on what it's supposed to mean, though.</blockquote>