(10-19-2016, 08:27 PM)McBeef Wrote: Using that definition, I feel like it's not very useful in the terms of this discussion.Â
Unless I'm misunderstanding your terms, all RP would have the same form (Text written in the first person) aside from a few special cases (exposition, GMing, IC songs). It only seems to differ in content and style.
The error is that we are not talking about Roleplay. We are talking about the presentation of lore and story in a visual media format (i.e., videogames).
Other than that, your assessment of what Roleplay is is only mostly correct using these terms. Yes, all Roleplay is "the same" in terms of strict medium, but Form also includes the overall presentation and light of something through the interaction of content and style. In this way, two sets of Roleplay would only be truly identical if they contained the same subject matter and were written in an identical stylistic manner.