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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9035765" data-attributes="member: 42582">Suppose someone sets out to design a RPG, and writes its rulebooks. But then no one ever plays the game - perhaps because they don't like the rules, or perhaps because, regardless of their attitude towards the rules, it turns out that, in play, the rules lack stability and the participants just drop into moment-by-moment negotiation. In the latter case, people might of course describe themselves as playing <whatever this hypothetical game calls itself>, but they wouldn't actually be playing the system of rules as published.Anyway, this poor RPG that no one plays: is it really a game? Or is it a failed attempt at a game?I don't see how the metaphysics of this really matter. But I'm pretty confident that Vincent Baker has an acute desire to avoid authoring such things!</blockquote>