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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4669275" data-attributes="member: 5143">If you are asking whether or not RPGs have goals that can be measured or are simply a matter of sitting down at the table and doing whatever you want.  I'd say both are true.  I personally prefer games with goals as I don't trust my friends to do anything other than sit around and make jokes if not given a goal.  But RPGs can do both just fine.Sometimes you are playing the D&D game whose goal is to help each other go into the Temple of Elemental Evil and destroy the evil force there.  Sometimes you are playing the D&D game where you wander from town to town trying out the ale in various taverns.</blockquote>