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I didn’t realize you were an RP geek. I tried to RP with my friends a bit a while ago but I don’t think I have the imagination to really get into it. And they played something different every week. I found it difficult to keep up with everything that was going on in all the various storylines that were playing out.. My favorite that they played was Legend of the Five Rings, a kind of fuedal japan era RP.
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Well, I’m a ‘writer’ (a-hur hur) so RP is just a kind of natural extension to that. Though it depends if you’re talking roleplaying or rollplaying; I’ve done both, but rollplaying I’ve found is much, much, much more prevalent in tabletop RPGs. If you’ve got a character sheet and some dice and a GM-driven plot it’s highly likely you’re rollplaying. The difference is kinda nebulous, but roleplaying is more like writing a collaborative story while rollplaying is more like playing a standard computer game but in the Really Real World. Rollplaying is generally hard for the GM, but easier for the players; roleplaying ideally spreads the effort around a little more.
Back In The Day we used to roleplay White Wolf World of Darkness games; when I went to university and met ~Mat [h], I started rollplaying DnD with his group which is where I realised the difference.
Both playstyles can be fun (or unfun) though; just depends on the people.
