What makes D&D, well... D&D?

[Ranger REG]

Man, I am a philosophy geek as well as a gamer geek. Help me, please.

Sorry, but your condition is terminal. You're too far gone.

What's worse? You made sense. It's official. I definitely need another hole in my head.

 

[diaglo]

To the layperson (non RPGer), "D&D" may refer to ALL role playing games, like how one can use "coke" to refer to all sodas if one is in Atlanta. The types "D&D" and "role playing games" are equivalent. But we know it only refers to a certain roleplaying game, because we have different sorts of conventions for using the term.


Man, I am a philosophy geek as well as a gamer geek. Help me, please.

but we aren't laypeople.

D&D is the boxed set that was released in 1974. everyting after that ain't D&D. it is just a pale imitation of it.

 

[nakia]

PS Thanks nakia, the token/type thing was really interesting.

You're welcome. I am glad someone actually found it interesting/helpful and was not bored (like my students sometimes get when I go off on the "isn't this cool!?" tangent).

Sorry, but your condition is terminal. You're too far gone.

Well, yes. I'm about to be certified and everything.

 

[MonsterMash]

Very interesting thread.

I think for me the definining thing that makes something D&D is version wars


Sorry to be silly, but I suspect this discussion is close to having run its course.