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Originally Posted by wei yau
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Originally Posted by seebs
For extra amusement, one sees people in MMOs who are contemptuous of the roleplayers, whom they consider "nerds".
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All the while conveniently forgetting the RPG part of the acronym. |
As far back as the '80s, people were already separating RPG players into 4 archetypes: roleplayers, powergamers, storytellers and IIRC weirdos or somesuch.
Heh, a search for the article title "The Fourfold Way" lists 3 indexes of that particular magazine and issue.