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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 6202665" data-attributes="member: 3192">PRGs meaning Puzzle Reality Games like I run? I understand that as a community labels are used in all crazy kinds of ways. We can be clear cut, but the next moment things change. That's life. The Forge was an agenda-driven community to wipe out all understanding of RPGs for its own highly prejudicial philosophy that relegated all games to narrative, not just role playing games. [The Big Model purported to be a model for every game ever]. I have to believe the zealous behavior was due to good will. That they wanted their one plot of land for the style they preferred. But they burned the entire forest down for it and killed every creature in their "purist" rampage.That when D&D began it was specifically a termed a "Role Playing Game" so as to mark it as in line with the army's wargame simulations in the 1970s and not a theater game speaks volumes to how impossibly different our hobby has become. The strange fish that still sells billions in the computer game industry has been all but environmentally eradicated into extinction. It cannot live in the imaginations of those who can no longer even conceive of it. D&D is a game, not a story. Can't tell the difference? I'm sorry for you. Blurring of the lines is also a kind of "one-true-wayism" and it serves certain strategies which all end in certainty. I simply refuse to pretend true believer-hood for some one opinion which refuses any and all alternatives.Good to know. I suspect we'll be using sociology's definition of Agenda next.</blockquote>

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