thread: 2013-09-24 : What even IS the object of an rpg?
On 2013-09-25, Vincent wrote:
Nolandda: Oh sure. It's quite straightforward. You know how when you aren't playing Cat's Cradle, you're just going about your life, you don't care whether the string is in good formations or not? In fact it never crosses your mind?
1) To find out how the message changes.
2) To make string formations.
3) To perform your adopted role.
It's super important to keep constantly in mind that "tabletop RPGs" is NOT one game. Shadowrun is one game; Moldvay Basic D&D is one game; Shock: is one game. Each has its own object, all its own: Shadowrun has a different object than Moldvay Basic D&D does and than Shock: does too.
If there exists some particular tabletop RPG with no object, that's fine, but that fact tells us absolutely nothing about whether another particular tabletop RPG has an object or doesn't have one.
