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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5486372" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't know the board games well enough, but I think they might be a bit too focused on meaningless combat for my taste.The imagination component I think is important for an RPG is the idea that the player is controlling a PC who is his/her primary vehicle for engaging the gameworld. To use some Forge terminology, it's about exploring a shared imaginary space.Now, because computer games can support this pretty well, I think I would want to add something to make the proto-RPG special, namely, the idea that what is in that space, and how it reacts, is responsive to the way that the players - using their PCs - engage with it. So if the game is an exploration game, it's very sophisticated and responsive exploration. Or - if as I prefer to play - the game is not primarily an exploration game, but uses exploration as a means to a different end, then the gameworld and the way it unfolds and responds reflects that other end (in my case, the expression of thematic concerns).I don't know enough about board game design or play to know how this might be done. I do know that a game like Talisman - even quite sophisticated Talisman - isn't going to cut it.This may be true, but I don't want my RPG to be a game where the narrative is not a part of the play (which is the problem with Talisman, or with even flavour-heavy CCGs). What makes it an RPG is that play involves engaging the unfolding narrative - the shared imaginary space.</blockquote>

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