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<blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 5080589" data-attributes="member: 3192"><p>My preference in roleplaying games is not towards storytelling, but deductive reasoning.&nbsp; That is what is fun for me and what I understand as central to roleplaying: the mental reasoning out of categorical patterns and their relations to each other in my imagination as being related to me an impartial referee, the pattern giver.&nbsp; Seeking to understand these relationships and planning alone or with my fellow players to try and accomplish goals are highlights for me.&nbsp; It isn't the fiction or the quality of an after-the-fact narrative arc, that is secondary.&nbsp; Nor is it is a thematic conflict pushed upon me by an outside party, that is strictly emotional management (too often spuriously argued for as &quot;fun&quot;).&nbsp; It is the brilliance of our own ideas come upon in our attempts to understand the world and enact our own desires within it according to the underlying, hidden framework (i.e. pattern) not wholly known by any player, just the referee.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="howandwhy99, post: 5080589, member: 3192"] My preference in roleplaying games is not towards storytelling, but deductive reasoning. That is what is fun for me and what I understand as central to roleplaying: the mental reasoning out of categorical patterns and their relations to each other in my imagination as being related to me an impartial referee, the pattern giver. Seeking to understand these relationships and planning alone or with my fellow players to try and accomplish goals are highlights for me. It isn't the fiction or the quality of an after-the-fact narrative arc, that is secondary. Nor is it is a thematic conflict pushed upon me by an outside party, that is strictly emotional management (too often spuriously argued for as "fun"). It is the brilliance of our own ideas come upon in our attempts to understand the world and enact our own desires within it according to the underlying, hidden framework (i.e. pattern) not wholly known by any player, just the referee. [/QUOTE]

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