What is a Role-playing Game (RPG)?
In a role-playing game, players can undertake great challenges, explore new horizons, and overcome fearsome villains. Your imagination is the limit. Every player creates a “character” tracked on a piece of paper. This imaginary person is how you, the player, interacts with an imaginary world. It is the “role” that you play during the game. Like an actor or actress who plays a role on stage, when you sit down to play, you are pretending to be your character. One of the players assumes the role of “Game Control” or GC–also known as the Game Judge. Think of the GC as the narrator to a story or the director of a play. You and your fellow players are the main characters, while the GC takes the role of the villains and the supporting cast. Also, the GC sets the scene and creates obstacles for you to overcome. It’s a tough job and requires an incredible imagination, but a GC weaves great games the way good authors write good books. How do you win? Well, role-playing is a team game. There is
As the name indicates, the players task is to take on the role of a fictitious character and play out his or her adventures in an equally fictitious setting. In the traditional variety (of which we are speaking here), its all done with the aid of your imagination well, as well as a few dice and a couple of sheets of paper. The traditional RPG is more like a novel that the players act out through the characters they assume. RPGs can take place in pretty much any kind of setting, but their primary playing fields are the phantastical genres, i.e. fantasy, science fiction, or horror. Predominantly among those is the fantasy field, transferring the players into a world where magic is abundant, as well as wizards, monstrous creatures such as dragons and the like. Whereas most games present a rather general world concept, some limit themselves to a specific subset of the genre, such as a RPG on vampires, or one based on a specific movie that had garnered a notable following, or on a familiar
