On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Tim Hall wrote: TH>I may be a bit ignorant here, but precisely what *is* the difference TH>between 'roleplaying' and 'simming'? I realise a TV talk show is TH>rather a rather different genre than a typical RPG, but what *is* the TH>difference between a Trek sim and a Trek RPG? Trek, like I said, tends to be one of the crossover critters. There's a high geek proportion in Trek fandom, but there's also a large percentage of fanfic authors (or wannabe fanfic authors), hence there's no real separation of the sim/RPG camps... it's pretty much a continuous spectrum. The *term* "sim" gets used a lot more than RPG, although why this should be when the perfectly obvious term should have been "holodeck," I dunno... -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/
