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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6934419" data-attributes="member: 42582">Which edition are you referring to? In AD&amp;D and B/X there is no &quot;set things on fire&quot; move described or defined in any of the books (except as an element of naval combat). Setting doors alight, chopping them down, surfing doors over the super-tetanus pits in White Plume Mountain, asking a NPC what her favourite breakfast is - these are all feasible moves in a RPG, but not in a boardgame that hasn't predefined them.The range of possible moves in a boardgame is set by the rules. The range of possible action declarations in a RPG is set primarily by the shared fiction. (There are some ultra-simulationist games that do their best to make these two states of affairs equivalent - the one I know best is Rolemaster - but even they don't get there, and the fact that they are RPGs is shown by the fact that the fiction is the ultimate determinant of what it is possible for players to have their &quot;playing piece&quot; attempt.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6934419, member: 42582"] Which edition are you referring to? In AD&D and B/X there is no "set things on fire" move described or defined in any of the books (except as an element of naval combat). Setting doors alight, chopping them down, surfing doors over the super-tetanus pits in White Plume Mountain, asking a NPC what her favourite breakfast is - these are all feasible moves in a RPG, but not in a boardgame that hasn't predefined them. The range of possible moves in a boardgame is set by the rules. The range of possible action declarations in a RPG is set primarily by the shared fiction. (There are some ultra-simulationist games that do their best to make these two states of affairs equivalent - the one I know best is Rolemaster - but even they don't get there, and the fact that they are RPGs is shown by the fact that the fiction is the ultimate determinant of what it is possible for players to have their "playing piece" attempt.) [/QUOTE]

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