What is a Role-playing Game (RPG)?
role-playing game n. A game in which players assume the roles of characters and act out fantastical adventures, the outcomes of which are partially determined by chance, as by the roll of dice. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. A role-playing game is any game you play where you take on another role. Now realize that this encompasses nearly all games and activities. When you play Monopoly you take on the role of a greedy investor in search of money and fame, in Clue you’re a Detective learning the identity of the murderer, and in Simcity your the Mayor governing a city. We don’t normally call these games RPGs. Simcity, for example, is considered a strategy game because more effort is put into building the city than into building the Mayor’s personality. A RPG forces the player to make a imaginary creature, who may or may not be human,
A role-playing game (RPG) is an activity in which several participants get together to take on the roles (hence the term role-playing) of various characters in a story or series of adventures. In more detail: one of the participants is the narrator called a game master (or simply the GM). In osRPG as in all role-playing games, the game master is essentially the producer, director and partially the writer all in one. The rest of the players take on the roles of the characters in the story much like actors in a movie with no script, they are – in effect – writing the story of their character’s part as the adventure flows and it is a continuous work in progress. In an RPG, the role-players are essentially playing the part of the heroes in the story line. The game master, in addition to creating and relating the circumstances of the ongoing story to the players, must also play (controls the actions of) all the other characters the role-players may meet and interact with during the course o
Remembering her childhood, Lynette tells this story, in which a very young friend attempted to introduce her to a popular television show. As with most children hearing the unfamiliar, they got it a bit garbled: When I was a child, I had a friend who lived in the house behind ours. To get there, I had to cross a small field, go into a small wooded copse, and climb a rather steep hill (in my childhood memory, the hill was virtually a cliff that I challenged and defeated on a regular basis). My friend was peculiarly fanatical about a show he called “Star Track,” which I had never seen. Despite my ignorance, it was a favorite setting for games of pretend, in which he was always “Captain Kurt” to my “Mr. Spark.” His Captain Kurt was dramatic, with large gestures and much emotion in his voice. When I tried to play my character of Mr. Spark likewise, he would always correct me–Mr. Spark would never get mad or sad or happy. When I said he was my character and I would have him getting mad, or
To answer this one I will turn to Wikipedia: A role-playing game (RPG, often roleplaying game) is a type of game in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. Within the rules, they may improvise freely; their choices shape the direction and outcome of the games. A role-playing game rarely has winners or losers. This makes role-playing games fundamentally different from board games, card games, sports and most other types of games. Like novels or films, roleplaying games appeal because they engage the imagination. Role-playing games are typically more collaborative and social than competitive. A typical role-playing game unites its participants into a single team, known as a “party”, that plays as a group. Most role-playing games are conducted like radio drama: only th
Role-playing games (RPGs) are tabletop, computer, or console games where the player assumes the role of one or more characters, often in a fantasy or science fiction setting. Often, especially in console games, the player controls several characters which make up a party. Typical character occupations include mage, cleric, barbarian, swordsman, archer, etc. Today, role-playing games are a huge genre of video and computer games, over $1 billion USD (US Dollars) in annual revenue worldwide. The latest movement in role-playing games has been towards massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) like World of Warcraft, which has over 11 million subscribers (making up about 62% of the market), and Maplestory, which has a similar number. The origin of the role-playing game lies in the early 1970s with player-created tabletop RPGs. The first commercially available role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons, was created by Gary Gygax in 1974, and has since been played by about 20 mill
