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>stats are what's important for role playing games

I guess Team Fortress 2 is an RPG then.

>Their roots lie in strategy games like Chainmail.

And you'll notice Chainmail is not called an RPG. It is called a tactical wargame. The differences between modern D&D and Chainmail are what make it an RPG and not a tactical wargame--namely, there is now more to it than just running through dungeons killing monsters.

Any game can be called an RPG if you're that liberal with the definition because any game is going to have some form of "stats" that dictate what things do what, when, and how. The only difference with Fallout Tactics is that those numbers are visible to the player and they will go up after an arbitrary number of kills. You know what else that's true for? DotA (not an RPG), LoL (not an RPG), Warcraft 3 (not an RPG), Zelda 2 (not an RPG), the entire Heroes of Might & Magic series (not RPG's)...shall I go on?

Just because there are numbers attached to your avatar and those numbers go up after awhile does not make a game an RPG.