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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 2797935" data-attributes="member: 813">Why is this a starting point? If I want to know what the theory of anything, I don't think I would start there.Try this:What is the Dinner Theory? Devise a workable Dinner theory that describes and explains the phenomenon known as dinner. To start it off we need to answer one simple question: What do you do?Does that make any sense whatsoever? If I want to know why people dine, what they do while they dine is not important. What is important is how they define dinner, what qualifies as dinner (as opposed to supper), etc.The theories so far proposed for RPGs are similar to the theories I would expect for dinner (in terms of style of content). I fail to see why you discard them in favor of &quot;what do you do?&quot; For my questions of course, one eats. That doesn't tell me much of anything about dinner though really.The first question to answer is &quot;what is dinner?&quot; And that is the type of answer you've received.(I know this thread is going to give me a headache....)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 2797935, member: 813"] Why is this a starting point? If I want to know what the theory of anything, I don't think I would start there. Try this: What is the Dinner Theory? Devise a workable Dinner theory that describes and explains the phenomenon known as dinner. To start it off we need to answer one simple question: What do you do? Does that make any sense whatsoever? If I want to know why people dine, what they do while they dine is not important. What is important is how they define dinner, what qualifies as dinner (as opposed to supper), etc. The theories so far proposed for RPGs are similar to the theories I would expect for dinner (in terms of style of content). I fail to see why you discard them in favor of "what do you do?" For my questions of course, one eats. That doesn't tell me much of anything about dinner though really. The first question to answer is "what is dinner?" And that is the type of answer you've received. (I know this thread is going to give me a headache....) [/QUOTE]

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