I think everyone has a hard time answering the questions, ‘what are roleplaying games?’ My new answer is, they’re collaborative, open-source story gambling.
Collaborative: Everyone gets to participate.
Open-Source: You’re making the story, you’re not a passive participant.
Story: You’ve got characters, a setting, and events they enact and respond to.
Gambling: There’s an element of risk and reward, and things may not go as you expect.
Maybe the definition isn’t perfect, and some games emphasize one more than the other, but that’s a pretty workable definition, I think. What do you think?
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011 at 7:49 AM.
Filed under Invulnerable RPG, Ponderings.
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