How would you define a Role Playing Game?
- story based (can't roleplay if there is no some stucking story)... and dialog-based as it is still probably the best way to serve the progressive revealing of a story...
- world based and by world I mean interacting in all ways (interacting events and so interacting quests but not only, interacting PCs/NPCs, interacting NPCs)... because you can't roleplay without knowing where you're roleplaying...
("where" in a real large meaning here, not just the geographical one)... and there i think dialog has to play a more important parts that it plays in more than one labelled RPG game...
i think it's enough to define RPGs in relationship and in opposition with action games and strategy games where story and even "world" may have a place but a not so important one...
well as minimal as it is it may already be hard to release...
