Re: What was the first RPG?

[djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)]

dat@thinkage.on.ca (David Adrien Tanguay) writes:
> What's the distinction between "adventure game" and RPG? I think it's a bit
> fuzzy. You'll probably find that RPGs evolved out of adventures. The missing
> links might be hard to classify as one or the other.

And pen-paper RPG's evolved out of miniature war games (the big
difference between the two there being scale).  But I think D&D really
invented the concept and the term RPG (argh, I hate giving TSR credit
for anything) Outside of computers, the only real workable definition
for RPG is a game that allows the players to assume different roles
(which is why the RPG newsgroups use "FRP" in their names, to limit
it to the more classical RPG types).
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