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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tyrlaan" data-source="post: 4898868" data-attributes="member: 20998">Not to sound snarky, but isn't that what reviews are for? Judging a book by it's cover and getting the short end of the stick when you buy it is by no means an rpg industry only experience. Hell, I've seen movie trailers that bill the movie as genre X and when you see it the thing turns out to be genre Y. Furthermore, unless these definitions you are crusading get accepted by the industry as a whole, they're meaningless. As this lengthy thread demonstrates, this is a very subjective point of discussion. That means someone could bill their new RPG as a story-telling style game but be "wrong" in their categorization by your eyes. Actually, even if the industry accepts it, unless retailers do too, it could still lead to confusion because a brick and mortar shop might mix their story-telling games in with their "adventure games"*Coming full circle, I think perhaps reading a review is the right answer here. I say that because I'm starting to get the sense that this hair being split wouldn't be a concern if you just research a product a bit before you buy it. *I'm dubbing RPGs that you think are not story-telling games as adventure games. I by no means suggest this is a good term (of course I think we shouldn't even be doing this segregation in the firstplace, but hey) but I needed something to put my sentence together without implying the insult that somehow story-telling games are not what you define as RPGs.</blockquote>

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