thread: 2005-11-10 : Open House: Ask a Frequent Question...
On 2006-01-27, Vincent wrote:
Ethan: Roleplaying's a literary
dramatic form, like the novel, the comic strip, or the poem. As such, it concerns itself with characters, situation, setting, color, and its own set of techniques. What distinguishes roleplaying - that is, face to face roleplaying - from other forms, including computer roleplaying games, choose your own adventures, and interactive fiction, is the fact that the process by which it happens is the ongoing informed agreement of its participants.
This makes WMW go "So you don't see ephemerality as an important component?"
This makes VB go "insofar as I do..."
Insofar as I do, it's implicated in "the ongoing informed agreement of its participants." That's if I understand what you mean by "ephemerality" - please feel free to clarify in a comment, not here in marginalia.
This makes VAX go "Ephemerality"
By ephemerality, are you referring to the immediacy of the performing arts? That a play, for example, only exists in the time that it is being put on?
This makes FSF go "I love this definition"
I've been wanting a consise definition of role playing for years. This is it!
