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I do consider it unfortunate that RPGs are now lumped together with boardgames and miniatures-based wargames as part of a nebulous "tabletop" economic coalition.
It seems to me that (creation of the hobby aside) #TTRPG stuff has always benefited from being positioned closer to books.
I certainly feel no kinship with the other parts of the tabletop 'collective'...
Boardgames are (at best) RPGs with the good bits removed and miniatures games are an ugly waste of money for fascist nerds.
@Taskerland I'm just old enough to remember when role-playing did the same thing to Good Old-Fashioned Wargaming.
That said, while I do boardgame as well as RPG, I think that both are better when they try to be their own thing and don't glurge into the other. (Do you think the Official Licenced Terraforming Mars RPG will be any good? I'll be amazed if it is.)
@Taskerland Heck, these days I've been finding it hard to convince some people that a TTRPG is something other than a board game. Which is a serious problem.
张殿李@Taskerland I disagree with you about boardgames. They're *different* games for certain, but I don't think they've had the good bits removed.
They just have different bits.
Sometimes I want the boardgame bits. Sometimes I want the RPG bits. But I agree that they're not the same and should not be viewed as part of the same ecosystem.