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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tyrlaan" data-source="post: 4900172" data-attributes="member: 20998">ST, I've been trying to get the same info, perhaps you will have more luck. So far it seems EW feels this needs to be done (I'm paraphrasing): (a) so if a cop interrogates you, you can be appropriately descriptive when explaining what RPG was being played at the scene of a crime (b) because there is a credible danger that the term RPG is becoming meaningless (c) because it would be a good thing (see further, awareness)Yes, there's a touch of snark there, but that is the answer I got, so take it as you will.Since I know I'm being silly about (a) I'll pass over it. As for (b), I just don't see it. Maybe if we were talking about the term "game" becoming meaningless I could see it. But the fact that this is 11 pages long, and that it's not the first thread in which this has been discussed, suggests to me that mayhaps the perceived concern just isn't there. Regarding (c), I haven't seen the justification of it being a Good Thing (tm). Again, based on the sheer volume of argument against what's being proposed, it seems clear to me that there are plenty of individuals who either just don't care if their playing an RPG that's flavor X vs. flavor Y, or for that matter what the different flavors are OR have their own viewpoints on the delineations OR don't want to be told their not playing a RPG. Perhaps there is a group if individuals out there that isn't accurately represented in this thread that are cursing the heavens because the game they just bought wasn't carefully compartmentalized into a convenient subcategory, but somehow I doubt it.Unless of course EW is trying to tell all of us that EW knows better than the rest of us and is doing this for our own good.</blockquote>

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