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For questions about RPG theory, an academic effort to theorize exactly what an RPG is and isn't, and how to best categorize and understand the vast market of thousands of games we call RPGs (despite them all being very different). Not to be confused with general theoretical work with RPGs.

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What is the bad history around the three-fold or GNS model of RPG's?

Having been involved at the time and looking back, I can now say that the core problem with GNS is that the categories are almost impossible to sensibly separate in practice, and lead to a lot of conf …
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