"I always thought that the term RPG was being misused when it was applied to JRPGs. I never uderstood how they were labeled as such considering the almost complete lack of any similarities to D&D."
I think that is true to an extent if you're talking about old school D & D. However, I think a shift happened with D & D in the mid to late eighties with the Dragon Lance modules and books where the characters in those modules and the story of the world of Krynn became more important than the game rules themselves. This was also carried on into the Forgotten Realms and Ravencroft ( I think that's what it was called) worlds.
Certainly traditional jrpgs like Final Fantasy and a game like Bioware's Baldur's Gate seem to have a much closer connection to the original SSI D & D computer rpgs like Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, and Death Knights of Krynn to me than do games like Oblivion and Fable which seem more closely related to Akalabeth, Wizardry, and Might and Magic on one hand and Zelda and Populous on the other.
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