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Originally Posted by Ars Mysteriorum
I'd just like to add my voice to the chorus of people who don't think D&D is an RPG. I'd classify it more as a tactical/strategy game with social mechanics. When I say "social mechanics," I'm referring to skills like "Bluff" and "Diplomacy," not players interacting under the guise of a persona. Also, I think the use of props that can potentially enhance the idea that the character is NOT the player (having a miniature represent the character rather than the player himself), this further distances the connection between the player and playing the role of his character.
For me, the system is so intensely gamist as to render the attention to mechanics as paramount rather than actually playing a role in the sense of taking on a persona.
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As I noted, I've never actually seen an RQ group that didn't use some form of minatures and at least a minimalistic battleboard, so I'm again failing to see any qualitative difference here. This again seems like people wanting to stake out a subset of the roleplaying hobby and call those that don't fit in it "not a roleplaying game"; its not any different in kind than people who try to exclude different subsets because they don't fit their taste. At best its parochialism, at worst an attempt at mindspace dominance, and I don't see any virtue to it at all.