What makes an RPG good?

[Man_Over_Game]

This is such a high level, existential question that it borders on no-longer being useful, but I still think it's an interesting one to talk about.

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Sorry, I know that was long, thanks for reading to the end. I'm sure no one really cares about my personal philosophy of game design, but these ideas have been bouncing around in my head for a while. I didn't really answer the original question, but I at least proposed a framework in which we could think about answering it a little more precisely.

You make some very valid points. Perhaps what I need to do instead is change the question into a goal-oriented one, with explicit needs and fulfillments.

Like an RPG request thread. Do we have one of those?