Table Top RPG's are always three games.
When I was a youth, there was an early Nintendo Entertainment System game, called Bayou Billy. The Nintendo at this time was only available with Robbie the Robot, who used centrifugal discs to play a pillar puzzle game with you. Robbie isn't important. He was not a complicated Robot.
The innovation that Bayou Billy had was *Three* games. You see you had a driving game where you drove somewhere in the swamp while you killed homeless swamp people on bikes tried to kill you, and then, sometimes, you would stop your car after beating up bike people, and walk into the swamp, and beat up the swamp people who had houses.
Don't feel too bad, the swamp people had trusty alligators and dogs and eagles. Finally, there were two sections that contained a first person style shooting gallery.
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is dead, long live Dungeons & Dragons. In spite of running a toy company, corporate malfeasance and the lust for gold have killed the official game of D&D. Do not fear, for this is not the first time the dragon has fallen from his throne.
We all grew up hearing the tale of the golden goose, but they've always got to kill it themselves. We literally have a saying that's almost too old to source about how this turns out. Every time.
It isn't the dragon that's important anyway. I hear the replacement this time is a combination of Shadows, Daggers, Hearts, and Darkness.
Dungeons and Dragons is three games.
You know what they are! I'm not going to say them!
They are called out in most of the versions in print, and each has separate and distinct procedures of play
This is important to the contextualization of the play experience.
Sorry. You see, what you do in one layer, affects another layer, and this gives meaning to the similar play loop beyond the moment.
You are making progress. You are pushing back the fog of war. You are uncovering the doom of civilization in your pursuit of power.
Three games.
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