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> You could be you in a tabletop game and bring all the stuff that you wanted to bring into it,” he said. “A tabletop game is limitless. A video game, by its very nature of how it’s designed, has some limits.”

Thats it? Such a uber long article to reach such a feeble insight? Not impressed, New Yorker

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What a weird thing to say. Board games and video games are two very different media with different capabilities and limitations.

I'd imagine one would have a tendency to consider what you're personally working on as superior in some way to something you're not.

A tabletop game is limited to (essentially) what you can make with cardboard and flavour text.

You can add flavour text to a video game as well. FTL is a great example of that making the game feel much bigger.

>A tabletop game is limited to (essentially) what you can make with cardboard and flavour text.

Maybe for board games. But for tabletop rpgs, I think it's different.

Games like Dungeons & Dragons are limited more by what you can describe with language and reasonably bookkeep without slowing down the pace of play.

Tabletop rpgs doesn't require any props. People do use rules, character sheets, dice - and anything from sketched maps to grids and miniatures - but essentially tabletop rpgs are less limited than say an author writing fiction.

RPGs are not regular tabletop games. Nobody was talking about Monopoly in that article. The whole point was about pen and paper RPG vs video games.

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