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Originally Posted by Evan Waters
As I have said many times before, this is bullshit.
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And I'm going to point out where I believe your contention is wrong. in this case. Except with more civil language.
Character does not mean role. There are a lot of games in which you have characters. Like Clue. A well known boardgame. That does not mean you are actually assuming and functioning in the role of that character. It simply means your boardgame piece actually has a name.
Instead of games like Sorry, in which your game pieces are anonymous and nameless. And even if someone did give every individual piece in Sorry a name, that doesn't make a a roleplaying game.
It is my contention that D&D 4th Edition reduced the dynamic from actually functioning in the role of your character to simply having named boardgame pieces.