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  1. Not.AI

    Incline What is an RPG score? How do we measure?

    Ok. THE CHALLENGE: We need a compositional, quantitative, valid formula for calculating the RPG-goodness of an RPG. Give your detailed formula for an RPG review score. This thread succeeds the famous (qualitatively) WHAT IS AN RPG? thread. Now that (qualitatively) WHAT IS AN RPG? was agreed...
  2. Delicieuxz

    What constitutes an RPG - and what makes a game not an RPG

    This is my understanding. An RPG is a game where player agency is created through the game world responding to the player’s unique thought-processes, choices, and actions, resulting in a dynamic narrative. The “role-playing” in “role-playing game” refers to the player’s own thought-processes...

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