HiddenX spotted a series of articles on ihobo.com that tries to offer an answer to what the essence of RPGs is.
It comes in three parts:
The Essence of RPGs (1): Children of TSR
The Essence of RPGs (2): Rule-play
The Essence of RPGs (3): Role-play
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It comes in three parts:
The Essence of RPGs (1): Children of TSR
The other two parts are:Near the beginning of my career as a game designer, one of my first speaking gigs was at an event in London where I was scheduled to appear with Warren Spector. Unfortunately, Warren was attending via webcam and the conference organisers took so long to set him up that my hour presentation on non-linear storytelling in games had to be condensed to ten minutes. By way of apology, Warren and I had a good exchange of emails where we discussed, amongst other things, some of the issues that Deus Ex faced during its troubled development. One thing in particular stuck with me. From the beginning of the design process, it was agreed that Deus Ex was going to be a role-playing game (RPG) – yet the many designers working on the project did not agree what an RPG was.
The Essence of RPGs (2): Rule-play
The Essence of RPGs (3): Role-play
More information.
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