On Role-Playing

JB of B/X Blackrazor is writing a long series of posts on role-playing. There is an interesting definition ("The act of role-playing is the matching of the player's objectives to the objectives of the character.") and a maybe not-so-interesting-for-everybody long history on where exactly in which edition of which D&D book concepts of role-playing were discussed. His narrow definition of role-playing leads to the statement that "Computer RPGs for example are, for the most part, NOT role-play

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