True, but many jRPGs are still story-driven RPGs, although with few freedom of choice, you can customize your characters the way you want, from the weapons he will wield to the skills he will learn and also have various paths. They just don´t that much of an alinear path like western RPGs.

Also, an important factor is chaos/luck (rolling the dice) which most RPGs have, but generally Action RPGs lack.

True, but many jRPGs are still story-driven RPGs, although with few freedom of choice, you can customize your characters the way you want, from the weapons he will wield to the skills he will learn and also have various paths. They just don´t that much of an alinear path like western RPGs.

 Also, an important factor is chaos/luck (rolling the dice) which most RPGs have, but generally Action RPGs lack.

One game I played recently that walks the Action Game/RPG border is The Witcher. What was interesting about the game is that some of the decisions you made in the game completely locked off aspects of the game. In fact, it is entirely possible that you would not know what opportunity you just missed. Sometimes it affected small things and other times larger things (like one of the games 3 endings). Moving any story forward, however is going to deprive you of many of the choices you would make in that situation. Again, there will never be a pure RPG on computers/consoles. Even if there was, people would probably get bored of it.

I give that post 9.6.

Obviously you never role-played in any of my parties. We never accomplished shit. It wall all "side quests" that we generally made up on the fly, usually resulting in at least one dead party member and at least 75% of the rest of the party jailed for one reason or another.

Lol! Sad but true (especially the jailed part).

I played the Witcher too, but from the isometric view which wasn´t action, but more strategic.

What do you mean chance is already provided? If you miss an attack or a spell is interrupted and so on or depending on the skill you use, you still take a risk and it can have a detrimentous effect. If you play Vagrant S tory you´ll see what bad things can happen.

Depending on which jRPG you play, you can have direct or indirect  input on stats.

Well, that just opens up a new and interesting side quest called "Jailbreak!"

My personal favorite. 

Sorry, that was a goofy wording. What I meant to say was that the rules, stats, and story are provided. The element of chance is also present. So, it is more like a strategy game where you must decide which skill to use but there is the chance it may not work. What I am saying basically that JRPGs use the elements of P&P games that are not actual roleplaying, the stats, rules, and chance. The story, which is the role-playing part, is entirely provided for you with little choice required by the player. The analogy, if run backwards, would be a GM of a P&P game that handed you your character sheet, did all the conversations for you, but had you handle picking skills for the character, choosing which skill to use in combat, and picking which enemy to attack.

I give that post a 9.7.