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Originally Posted by Nightshade
Yes, yes, we know, a game focused on combat and adventuring isn't a roleplaying game.
You know, trying to stake out the term "roleplaying games" for only those systems one approves of is an old tactic; I was seeing it at least as far back as 1985.
D&D, even D&D4, is as much a roleplaying game as any on the market; roleplaying games are defined by the degree to which you control your character design and development, and the freedom you have to play them as your vision dictates within the mechanics. Any attempt to define it finer down that that would exclude most games on the market--including, I might add, BRP.
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Just because a game labels itsself as "roleplaying game" it does not mean that it is one. And just because a game allows for "character design" and "developement" it does not mean that it is a roleplaying game at all. Advanced Heroquest, Avalon Hills Magic Realm and many other mini-, board and skirmish games have "character design and development" too. I mean the game company put even a sticker on the AHQ box labeled "3D Roleplaying". Maybe for you all these games are roleplaying games?
Face it, some few rulesets are good for roleplaying (BRP), most are very poor (like D&D3.5) and some are not suited at all. (like D&D4e)