Gaming = "Playing a roleplaying game" for this purpose.
If you're playing a roleplaying game -- not watching someone else play, not listening to someone else tell you a story or lecture you -- you must be empowered to be part of that play, to have your actions -- your "moves" matter.
It's not that it's not a functional game if you're not empowered. It's that it's not -play-.
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Date: 2008-04-11 04:23 am (UTC)Gaming = "Playing a roleplaying game" for this purpose.
If you're playing a roleplaying game -- not watching someone else play, not listening to someone else tell you a story or lecture you -- you must be empowered to be part of that play, to have your actions -- your "moves" matter.
It's not that it's not a functional game if you're not empowered. It's that it's not -play-.