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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 4898073" data-attributes="member: 2673">Question: If an OD&D GM asks for character backgrounds, even brief ones, and uses that information to flesh out his world, is the group no longer playing RPGs, according to your definitions?What about a wizard casting a Wish spell?If a player makes a suggestion as to what's beyond the hill and the GM takes it, are they still playing roleplaying games?  If so, what is the functional difference between this an a system of points that the player can use to define things about the setting, with GM veto (as nearly all games that use these mechanics support)?Here's another one.  I commonly use the Luck roll as a form of metagame mechanic.  Player asks if there's a crowbar in the ol' toolshed.  Roll luck and there is, fail and there isn't.  Are you going to claim that Call of Cthulhu isn't a roleplaying game?Would you be willing to consider less offensive terminology?  I agree with Obryn that saying your style is REAL roleplaying and other people's ways are something else is inherently offensive.  I'll accept 'story-game' as a subcategory of Roleplaying Game, but not a seperate category.  I don't feel when I play Buffy instead of Call of Cthulhu that I'm taking part in a totally different hobby.  What would you call games without metagame mechanics?</blockquote>