What is roleplaying?
Basically, you’re roleplaying any time you take on a persona that’s not your own; acting—especially improv acting—is roleplaying, as is pretending to be a sexy, stranded hitchhiker on a CB radio as you’re driving through the Dakotas in the middle of the night. When we use the term, we’re usually talking about roleplaying games, which have been around for about thirty years and aren’t nearly as likely to leave you dead in a truck stop shower room.