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<blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 4720366" data-attributes="member: 64209">Thank you for answering my questions.&nbsp;I think I agree with just about everything else you said, so I didn't quote it here.&nbsp;The one thing I still don't get is that I understand the above quote as, and I want you to know I'm not intentionally mischaracterizing you, &quot;It's a roleplaying game because it has that name or 'tag'. Call D&amp;D a 'pen and paper game' and it'll be dropped in terms of roleplaying to settlers of catan. Call Catan a 'roleplaying' game and people will step up.&quot;&nbsp;Now I'll grant you that there's an element of truth to this, but I think it is a small element. In my opinion, different games/systems/editions HAVE to be better/worse for roleplaying. Of course, different people roleplay in different ways (I do get that), but different games result in different effects, I think (so game A might be better for roleplaying for me and game B might be better for my wife, but both games DO impact our roleplaying). Maybe that's not the sole component, or even the main component, but I still can't understand anyone who says &quot;roleplaying is system independent&quot;. I'd like to, but I can't get that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aberzanzorax, post: 4720366, member: 64209"] Thank you for answering my questions. I think I agree with just about everything else you said, so I didn't quote it here. The one thing I still don't get is that I understand the above quote as, and I want you to know I'm not intentionally mischaracterizing you, "It's a roleplaying game because it has that name or 'tag'. Call D&D a 'pen and paper game' and it'll be dropped in terms of roleplaying to settlers of catan. Call Catan a 'roleplaying' game and people will step up." Now I'll grant you that there's an element of truth to this, but I think it is a small element. In my opinion, different games/systems/editions HAVE to be better/worse for roleplaying. Of course, different people roleplay in different ways (I do get that), but different games result in different effects, I think (so game A might be better for roleplaying for me and game B might be better for my wife, but both games DO impact our roleplaying). Maybe that's not the sole component, or even the main component, but I still can't understand anyone who says "roleplaying is system independent". I'd like to, but I can't get that. [/QUOTE]

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