Post originally by James A Beggs at 2005-04-21 10:19:50
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<<The rules for social interraction should be just as strict - NO MORE AND NO LESS - than for these actions. If they are not, you may as well be playing a computer game, since there would be just as little actual roleplay>>

Now, that is the most inane thing I've heard in a long time. Roleplaying is interacting with live people, not dictated by a game system. There would be just as little actual roleplay?

Who are you to tell other people that they aren't roleplaying correctly if they do not subscribe to your philosophy of gaming? That's pretty arrogant.

To each person, roleplaying means something different, but to announce that you aren't roleplaying if you aren't codifying things by your rather narrow interpretation is pretty weak.

My saying that what you described sounded like a computer game, because you seem to think that everything has to follow the same exact rules set. Well, guess what, there are a large number of roleplaying games that use different systems for different aspects of a game, between combat, socialization, etc, and they do just fine and are just as enjoyable.

Whether you agree with them or not.