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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fairytale" data-source="post: 6154353" data-attributes="member: 82493">As I said, its more that I'm contemplating the connotations of such a  program rather than suggesting it would be superior. And yes I'd  forgotten about Neverwinter Nights. I tried to get involved in a  campaign on there but too many lags, players not co-operating in a  productive roleplaying manner as you say, and just an overall feeling of  lack of control, like in all computer games when compared to the  aforementioned 'do anything you can think of' liberties in RPGs. Tactics could still be put into play in this hypothesis. They would have to be formulated before combat started, and various kinds of strategies would be written down and perhaps even rehearsed by the players before an adventure began. That would be more exciting for me. I think that's why I wonder if real-time combat could be possible in some way or form. But RPGs are always going to be simulations. How we simulate battle varies from system to system, but the overall advantage of turn-based combat is we don't necessarily have to be experts on the battlefield with intuitive responses made in a matter of seconds, in order to play an expert on the battlefield. We can take the time and say things like, 'Hmm, okay well as a former veteran soldier my character would have taken note of the terrain before the battle began so he would act like this'. I just think its good to debate things like this because roleplaying games should always evolve. And debates like this encourage that evolution. I don't want to be playing WoW because I don't feel immersed in its world of countless adventurers running around all over the place hunting hundreds of wolves to hand in to an NPC who apparently has thousands of gold to hand out for their pelts. And rubbing shoulders with an elf called dArKSTaR666 kinda ruins the fantasy for me.</blockquote>

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