Quote Originally Posted by Max_Killjoy View Post
To be fair some people find it useful as one part of a descriptive toolbox, and I'm fine with that as long as they don't insist on pushing it onto people who'd rather not use it, and can live and let live.
Oh. Yes. It has plenty of meaning for people who want to use it to describe how they play RPGs.

Heck, it can even can have meaning to them for mentally categorizing in their own head how they see me playing RPGs. That's all fine and dandy too.

It's just not useful nor meaningful way for someone else to tell me that's what I'm doing when I play RPGs.

So okay. I'm wrong. The phrase "collaborative storytelling" can haz meaning. Depending on what purpose they are putting it to.

I'm assuming here we're not discussing the phrase "RPGs are about collaborative storytelling", because that is still a universal statement. Unless qualified, it doesn't stand, because it automatically includes telling me that's my purpose when I play RPGs.