[MUD-Dev] Why are we all making RPGs?

[Travis Casey]

Lee Sheldon wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian 'Psychochild' Green

>> I think the biggest reason why RPGs are natural for the "online"
>> medium is because it is the one genre that benefits the most from
>> being online.  All RPGs involve other characters.  Computer RPGs
>> (CRPGs) usually have players control one or more of the "good"
>> characters, while the computer tries to cover the rest of the
>> characters.  As any fan of traditional tabletop RPGs can tell
>> you, the computer does a terrible job of making a dynamic story.

> Used in this sense the term RPG isn't really a genre at all, is
> it?  We generally assume it means fantasy-sci-fi because that's
> traditionally the territory most of the RPGs have explored.

RPG is a genre, even in this sense.  "Genre" is simply a fancy word
for "kind" or "type" -- it doesn't have to be restricted to the
"literary genres", and you can have multiple, non-overlapping groups
of genres.

Thus, "RPGs, FPSes, real-time wargames, turn-based wargames, etc." 
can be one set of game genres, and "fantasy, science-fiction, etc." 
another set.

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