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| bio | website | stevecooper.org |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 3 months |
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Jan 12 |
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What's the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? Nice description. Tried to get something similar but I prefer your way of saying it... |
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Jan 11 |
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What's the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? @Sardathrion -- what mechanism is there for #4? I may be misremembering Arkham Horror. When do players allow or disallow a move based on their judgement about the in-game fiction? |
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Jan 11 |
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Jan 11 |
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What's the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? added 759 characters in body |
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Jan 10 |
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What's the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? thing is, a GM is heavily creative force in a creative game -- saying they aren't a player seems to dismiss their input. I think one-to-one player-character equivalence isn't necessary, just common. A player can also play many roles at different times, for example. Ars Magica is a classic example. |
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Jan 10 |
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What's the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? The difference to games with 'flavour' is that ultimately you can ignore flavour, but in an RPG you can't ignore the story going on. |
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Jan 10 |
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What's the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? @TimothyAWiseman games like monopoly don't have a imaginative game world. It's the combination of fictional game world and imagination-based moves that makes it an RPG |
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Jan 10 |
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What's the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? Yeah, end condition isn't necessary. There are open-ended games like FarmVille which have infinite play. The necessary part are imagination and limited action based on the gameworld |
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Jan 10 |
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What's the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? @Joaquim It's pretty easy to define victory for many scenarios -- 'did we escape the evil wizard' would be a victory condition. I don't see how evaluating a game on victory conditions or being zero-sum tells you anything -- there's no reference at all to imagination, or fictional universes. Under this definition, an orgy is an RPG and trading the stock market is a board game |
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Jan 10 |
awarded | Critic |
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Jan 10 |
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What's the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? There's two independent values here; enjoyment, and victory. It's possible to gain one and lose the other. An either/or definition like this needs to use the same variable... In an RPG, you can measure victory-style gain in XP, stats, inventory, and achievements. It's hard to see a difference between, say, chess ELO score and the XP/level of a D&D character. |
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Jan 10 |
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What's the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? Nice and detailed. I think under your definition, Munchkin could be played as an RPG, as much as any beer-and-pretzels dungeon bash. Also under that definition, a GM isn't playing an RPG unless he's playing a character. Could the definition be finessed to remove the necessity for players to take on roles? |
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Jan 10 |
answered | What's the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? |
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Aug 2 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 3 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 6 |
answered | What would you pick as the “four elements” of mind? |
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Feb 3 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Feb 3 |
answered | Game design question. What sort of effect does HP as a resource have on a system? |
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Feb 3 |
answered | How to design game elements other than combat? |
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Feb 3 |
awarded | Supporter |
