At the very simplest level it’s a reason to have fun with some friends maybe have a drink or two, chill out and have a laugh.Īt it’s best then it’s like my Storytelling mentor Andy said the best film you will never see. I’m sure most of us here have played tabletop games or video games and role-playing games aren’t a million miles away from those. The Generic Universal Role-Playing System (GURPS) worked out ways of using one numerical system to reflect anything from people who jump through realities, super-heroes and even legal or medical dramas.Īs the medium evolved there were attempts to create a unified gaming system which anyone could use, “The d20 System,” as well as the growth of story games which came more from improv and storytelling than fighting, miniatures or complex systems. Vampire: The Masquerade turned vampire tropes into different ‘clans’ taking part in shifty politics and influencing vampire fiction ever since. As time went on, more games came out focusing on different ideas. Dungeons & Dragons is the most famous one of these, with people such as the creators of Futurama and Vin Deisel are known players of it. From there, narratives grew from the adventures. Then people started wanting progression in their characters. Then they were fighting the environment, overseen by a Dungeon Master. The first is war games starting with Chainmail, Little Wars and other tabletop war games, there was a change from miniature armies to individuals fighting one another. Role-playing games come from a few different places, which is why they’re not easily defined. Some game designers like John Wick have called this, “The Fifth Wall,” where the audience for the story is also the actor. They know the rules and establish the world, other players have a character who is theirs and experiences the story.įor instance, if I was running the Lord of the Rings movies, I would be Peter Jackson while my players would be Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and so on. It’s a story, told in one or more sittings between a group of people, often with one acting as the Storyteller (aka Dungeon Master, Games Master) or as the host. One of the people who trained me to run role-playing games said that a role-playing game should be the best book you will never read, the best film you will never see. A brief overview should be enough until I get to a specific game. Most role-playing books have a good stab at it which is often fitting for the particular game. It’s a tricky question as a role-playing game can be seen like several different things, it’s a fairly mercurial subject to define as any description may not do it justice. So what is role-playing? I’ll cover this quickly. It’s an amazing hobby and an experience I’m insanely excited about sharing with you. I’ve joined the Who Dares Rolls crew specifically with the goal of showing you how good role-playing can be, including the experiences I’ve had and recommendations of games to try out. It’s something which is everywhere, yet often misunderstood. There have been several references to it in the popular culture from The IT Crowd, Big Bang Theory, Key & Peele, even Buffy had a few of the characters role-playing in the final episode the night before their big final battle, Joss Whedon even said the Traveller RPG directly influenced Firefly. Role-playing, eh? You know, that thing with the dice and the maps where people pretend to be other people. Charlie is going to be covering RPG’s and other goodness for us, so without further ado let me hand you over to the man himself. not rubbish up with my interesting use of grammar and the written word) introduce our most recent new edition to the Who Dares Rolls family Mr Charles Etheridge-Nunn.
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