Sunday, September 5, 2010

Dungeon Crawl != Roleplaying Game

The similarities between the tabletop D&D and dungeon runner games has been causing confusion from very early on.  But running through dungeons does not make it role-playing.  Simply having a character, or party of characters, that level through experience in a fantasy environment is not roleplaying.  "Roleplaying" is roleplaying. If pitting a character against monsters in a dungeon is an RPG then there are plenty of games that should fall into that category, but don't.  For the last time,  Diablo was never an RPG.  It was a dungeon runner.  Even back in the glory days of tabletop games, hack-n-slash was never roleplaying, it was for munchkins.

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