Many (D&D, Top Secret, Gamma World, Villains &Vigilantes, Palladium, etc.) do. Not all RPGs include “leveling” as a system design. There’s probably some analogy I could draw to point out the ridiculousness here, but I am too lazy (at the moment) to do so. Your request to “remove RPGs from the equation” to clarify the “context” is equally nonsensical. Your initial statement (that advancing in level is more a ‘video game conceit’ than a board game) is nonsensical. Levels are not a “video game conceit ” they are a trope and game convention popularized by RPGs. However, these games are clearly influenced by RPGs. There are, in fact, “board games with levels.” Siege of the Citadel is one City of Chaos is another. We’ve just learned a lot (more) about design over the last 40 years. My analysis is not meant to be disparaging of genre RPG designers, nor do I mean to heap huge amounts of praise on the heads of Gygax, Arneson, etc. Mainly (I think) due to the “magic” of D&D being attributed to accidental design AND the focus of niche RPGs being genre emulation INSTEAD OF game design. cyberpunk, for example…or vampire stories or “steam-punk” or anime or whatever).īut while genre-specific rules are designed to emulate specific fantasies, they aren’t (IMO) able to meet the same heights - in terms of execution of concept - as D&D. Many of these were products of their time (or, rather, products of the imagination of the designers who wrote them based on their own interests)…and what has interested designers have changed over time (moving from post-apocalyptic to near-apocalyptic dystopian future, i.e. I dig on spaghetti westerns (for example) so I want a gunfighting cowboy RPG, etc.Įarly RPGs, like the ones you cite, were designed to fill niches of different types of adventure, different types of fantasy. However, there’s no denying that genre plays a part in what attracts players to specific games that represent a specific type of emulation. I think it’s a mistake to try classifying D&D by genre. My short answer (to both) is “Maybe…but probably not.” That’s a good question…two questions, really, as they aren’t mutually exclusive.
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