Paul Beakley I don’t disagree with you completely, but… I, personally, need some kind of word to refer to games which have characters and stories and take place in our shared imagination. I use “story game” for that, personally. Not because I want to smooth out differences, but because I need a way to communicate with other people that I’m talking about D&D but not Monopoly. Or even D&D but not World of Warcraft. How would you do that, if you think “story game” is “worse than useless”?