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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 6202646" data-attributes="member: 2303">Having no clear border does not mean that there are no clear-cut cases.Is Dungeons and Dragons a RPG? Is the computer game Neverwinter Nights? Is Finaql Fantasy a RPG? Is the old TSR game Dungeon a RPG? Warhammer quest says RPG on the box. Is that a RPG? If it is, is WHFB an RPG - it does represents characters and deals with their fate. Is Squad Leader an PRG? Nuclear war (Flying Buffalo)?Is Everway a RPG? Is Sorcerer, of Forge fame? Is "Time and Again" the card game a RPG? Is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_A_Minute" target="_blank">Just a Minute</a> a rpg? The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen? The line here is not clear at all, that's why I say there is a continuum from just storytelling on one side to wargaming on the other, and PRGs occupy a vaguely defined space in the middle. And you could create an arbitrary number of such distinctions where RPGs (or basically, the meaning of any term) is a vaguely defined space in the middle. Of course, there is an infinite number of such pairs of concepts that do not include rpgs anywhere in their range - such as a range of stellar objects arranged by density from black holes to interstellar vacuum - with stars being a rather well-defined are in between. But if you ask a specialist I'm sure there are examples along that line that are not clear at all. Still, rpgs are not on that continuum until the first role-playing supplement is launched into a stable orbit.Coming back to my hand, it is certainly on a continuum that includes "things you use in role-play". If it is inside or outside that area depends on what we mean when we say "use".</blockquote>

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