Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines.
Quotes
[edit]- As an art form, the fantasy role-playing game is directed inward. The players do not perform their roles for an audience but for each other. Because of this introspective quality fantasy role-playing games are almost impossible to appreciate or critique with-out participant observation. This is no doubt why, within the small body of scholarly research on these games, I am unaware of any example in which the scholar has not spent hours playing these games him-or herself. The present study is no exception.
- Joseph P. Laycock, Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic Over Role-Playing Games Says About Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds, University of California Press. 2015, p.ix
- Now that you have 25 mouths screaming different curses and 50 feet running in different directions, you have a perfect simulation of every birth defect and psychological disorder known to science, and are ready for a grand adventure.
- Seanbaby (Sean Patrick Reiley), "Understanding the World of Warcraft Using Super Mario Bros", Cracked (16 July 2009)
- GMs: Never let players question your GMing decisions.
Players: Question everything.
This about sums up roleplaying gaming.- The Comic Irregulars, Darths & Droids, Episode 732: "In Space, No One Can Hear Your Scene" (27 May 2012)
External links
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- "RPGs Through History: Famous Quotes", The Alexandrian (16 September 2023)