"You don& #39;t play a storytelling game the same way you play a board game, RPG, or video game (because those are all different things)," just shouldn& #39;t be a statement that makes people froth at the mouth.

And yet...
Frankly, it& #39;s a sign of how dysfunctional the Forge was that the hobby is still poisoned by this discourse.
Imagine if in the late & #39;70s the hobby had vociferously objected to people referring to D&D or Traveller or Runequest as anything other than wargames. (And even argued that all wargames should be played like D&D.)
Imagine how unnecessarily angry that would make the wargamers.

Imagine how incredibly stunted the development of RPGs would have been.
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Gloomhaven exists, so obviously Small World and Tales from the Loop are the exact same type of game.
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Your claim that Advanced Third Reich and Unknown Armies use fundamentally different types of mechanics is just gatekeeping!
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Look, D&D called itself a wargame in 1974. Therefore, Blades in the Dark is a wargame. Case closed, really.
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Your claim that D&D is a roleplaying game instead of a wargame is just trying to redefine us as outside the hobby! Preferences for trad game techniques is fine, but "you don& #39;t belong here" is not!
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