Whats a roleplaying game, or RPG?
When I talk about roleplaying games (outside of video game -related sections), I’m referring to so called ‘pen and paper’ or ‘tabletop’ roleplaying games, a genre of games created in the 1970s with the release of the famous Dungeons & Dragons. It is easiest to think of these games as a type of interactive storytelling, where one person (the Game Master) narrates a story he or she has prepared in advance, while other players take on the roles of the main characters and decide how their individual characters react to the events of the story, which is thus shaped through the dialogue of the Game Master and the players. A set of rules is often used in order to bring structure to the game, to indicate what a character is capable of (by representing his or her skills with a set of numerical values), and to bring excitement by including an element of chance (i.e. die rolling). The genre of video games referred to with the same name was originally influenced by ‘pen and paper’ games (and parti
When I talk about roleplaying games, I’m usually referring to so called ‘pen and paper’ or ‘tabletop’ roleplaying games, a genre of games created in the 1970’s with the release of the famous Dungeons & Dragons. It is easiest to think of these games as a type of interactive storytelling, where one person (the Game Master) narrates a story he or she has prepared in advance, while other players take on the roles of the main characters and decide how their individual characters react to the events of the story, which is thus shaped through the dialogue between the Game Master and the players. A set of rules is generally used in order to bring structure to the game, to indicate what a character is capable of (by representing his or her skills with a set of numerical values), and to bring excitement by including an element of chance (i.e. die rolling). The genre of video games referred to with the same name was originally influenced by ‘pen and paper’ games (and particularly Dungeons & Drago
