Role-playing is getting together with some friends to write a story.
It’s joining around a campfire or a dining room to spin some tall
tales. Role-playing is being creative and having fun with friends.
Role-playing games are stories. You create one of the main
characters, and you create a story around your character. The rest of
the players also create stories around their characters. And there’s an
editor who brings those stories together.
In most role-playing games, one person plays the “referee,” who can
be thought of as the “Editor” of the story. The Editor will, with input
from you if you desire to give any, describe a world or setting. You
and your friends, as Players, will take a character and protagonist in
this world. You will guide your character through the story that you
and your friends are creating.
Each player takes a different character, and each character
interacts with each other character. Role-playing, in this sense, is
very much play-acting in the mind. You imagine what the Editor
describes. Then, you imagine your character’s response to this
situation, and describe that to the Editor and the other Players. They,
in turn, each do the same with their characters. |
