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| − | I got into role-playing games when I was around 5-years-old because my neighborhood friends had various Dungeons and Dragons manuals. | + | A '''role-playing game''', or '''RPGs''' for short, combines a rule system with imagination and acting to create a [[game]]. A role-playing game is usually played with several people, one person as a referee and the rest of the players assuming the roles of a characters in a fictional setting. The referee's job is to setup an adventure for the players to enjoy while enforcing the game's rules. Traditional RPGs are often referred to as "pen and paper" or "table-top" to distinguish them from video game RPGs. While the most popular role-playing game is ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', hundreds of others exist for all sorts of different settings including [[science fiction]], westerns, historic, and many others. Pretty much every major media franchise has an official role-playing game rule set. |
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| + | I got into role-playing games when I was around 5-years-old because my neighborhood friends had various ''Dungeons and Dragons'' manuals. As kids, we were still too young to really appreciate the rules, so, instead we made up our own rules and created adventures using the pictures from the game books and our toys for inspiration. When my family moved to a different city, I stopped playing pen-and-paper RPGs, but they kindled a love for fantasy themed movies and video games which remained my favorite genre for many years. In middle school, a fellow classmate and I shared our love for video game RPGs, but he also showed me his collection of ''Dungeons and Dragons'' manuals. We played a few sessions, and it rekindled my interest in pen-and-paper RPGs, but I was very conflicted at the time because I was attending an Evangelical church, and considered myself a born-again Christian, a group that viewed ''D&D'' as Satanic. Keeping my hobby a secret from my church family, I bought my friend's manuals and several other books from a local hobby shop. In high school, I began playing ''Dungeons and Dragons'' with a new set of friends and my older brother's friends, and I poured a lot of time into the game. However, I was the only one in my group of friends who had a job, so I missed a lot of game sessions. In my late teens and early 20s, I tried getting involved with other game systems like ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' and later editions of ''D&D'', but I was older and my appreciation of them had waned. I still play a lot of video game RPGs, but I no longer player pen-and-paper RPGs. | ||
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* [https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-pen-and-paper-rpg_s-v1 ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-pen-and-paper-rpg_s-v1] - Ranker - Best RPGs. | * [https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-pen-and-paper-rpg_s-v1 ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-pen-and-paper-rpg_s-v1] - Ranker - Best RPGs. | ||
| + | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJiwn8iXqOI youtube.com/watch?v=fJiwn8iXqOI] - Difference between Western and Japanese RPGs. | ||
[[Category: Game Categories]] | [[Category: Game Categories]] | ||
Revision as of 08:55, 10 July 2020
A role-playing game, or RPGs for short, combines a rule system with imagination and acting to create a game. A role-playing game is usually played with several people, one person as a referee and the rest of the players assuming the roles of a characters in a fictional setting. The referee's job is to setup an adventure for the players to enjoy while enforcing the game's rules. Traditional RPGs are often referred to as "pen and paper" or "table-top" to distinguish them from video game RPGs. While the most popular role-playing game is Dungeons and Dragons, hundreds of others exist for all sorts of different settings including science fiction, westerns, historic, and many others. Pretty much every major media franchise has an official role-playing game rule set.
I got into role-playing games when I was around 5-years-old because my neighborhood friends had various Dungeons and Dragons manuals. As kids, we were still too young to really appreciate the rules, so, instead we made up our own rules and created adventures using the pictures from the game books and our toys for inspiration. When my family moved to a different city, I stopped playing pen-and-paper RPGs, but they kindled a love for fantasy themed movies and video games which remained my favorite genre for many years. In middle school, a fellow classmate and I shared our love for video game RPGs, but he also showed me his collection of Dungeons and Dragons manuals. We played a few sessions, and it rekindled my interest in pen-and-paper RPGs, but I was very conflicted at the time because I was attending an Evangelical church, and considered myself a born-again Christian, a group that viewed D&D as Satanic. Keeping my hobby a secret from my church family, I bought my friend's manuals and several other books from a local hobby shop. In high school, I began playing Dungeons and Dragons with a new set of friends and my older brother's friends, and I poured a lot of time into the game. However, I was the only one in my group of friends who had a job, so I missed a lot of game sessions. In my late teens and early 20s, I tried getting involved with other game systems like Vampire: The Masquerade and later editions of D&D, but I was older and my appreciation of them had waned. I still play a lot of video game RPGs, but I no longer player pen-and-paper RPGs.
Links
- ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-pen-and-paper-rpg_s-v1 - Ranker - Best RPGs.
- youtube.com/watch?v=fJiwn8iXqOI - Difference between Western and Japanese RPGs.
