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Play-by-post role-playing game

Index Play-by-post role-playing game

A play-by-post role-playing game (or sim) is an online text-based role-playing game in which players interact with each other and a predefined environment via text. [1]

45 relations: AOL, Blog, Bulletin board system, Canon (fiction), Character sheet, Collaborative editing, Collaborative fiction, Collaborative writing, Creative writing, Dice, Diceless role-playing game, Editing, Email, Fiction, Gamemaster, Gamer, GIF, House rule, In-group favoritism, Interactive fiction, Internet forum, Internet Relay Chat, LiveJournal, Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, MUD, Narration, NationStates, New Worlds Project, Non-player character, Online chat, Online text-based role-playing game, Play-by-mail game, Play-by-post role-playing game, Player versus player, Plot hole, ProBoards, Reblogging, Role-playing game, Role-playing game system, Scene (drama), Software, Tumblr, Twitter, Wetpaint, Wiki.

AOL

AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc., originally known as America Online, and stylized as Aol.) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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Bulletin board system

A bulletin board system or BBS (also called Computer Bulletin Board Service, CBBS) is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program.

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Canon (fiction)

In fiction, canon is the material accepted as officially part of the story in the fictional universe of that story.

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Character sheet

A character sheet is a record of a player character in a role-playing game, including whatever details, notes, game statistics, and background information a player would need during a play session.

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Collaborative editing

Collaborative editing is the editing of groups producing works together through individual contributions.

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Collaborative fiction

Collaborative fiction is a form of writing by a group of three or more authors who share creative control of a story.

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Collaborative writing

The term collaborative writing refers to projects where written works are created by multiple people together (collaboratively) rather than individually.

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Creative writing

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.

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Dice

Dice (singular die or dice; from Old French dé; from Latin datum "something which is given or played") are small throwable objects with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers.

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Diceless role-playing game

A diceless role-playing game is a role-playing game which is not based on chance: it does not use randomisers to determine the outcome of events in its role-playing game system.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.

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Fiction

Fiction is any story or setting that is derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.

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Gamemaster

A gamemaster (GM; also known as game master, game manager, game moderator or referee) is a person who acts as an organizer, officiant for questions regarding rules, arbitrator, and moderator for a multiplayer role-playing game.

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Gamer

A gamer is a person who plays interactive games, either video games, skill-based card games and plays for usually long periods of time.

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GIF

The Graphics Interchange Format, better known by its acronym GIF, is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the bulletin board service (BBS) provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite on June 15, 1987.

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House rule

House rules are modifications to the provided rules of games that are adopted by individual groups of players.

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In-group favoritism

In-group favoritism, sometimes known as in-group–out-group bias, in-group bias, or intergroup bias, is a pattern of favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members.

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Interactive fiction

Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment.

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Internet forum

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

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Internet Relay Chat

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text.

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LiveJournal

LiveJournal (Живой Журнал), stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian (originally American) social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal or diary.

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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are a combination of role-playing video games and massively multiplayer online games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual world.

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MUD

A MUD (originally Multi-User Dungeon, with later variants Multi-User Dimension and Multi-User Domain) is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, usually text-based.

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Narration

Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.

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NationStates

NationStates is a multiplayer government simulation browser game.

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New Worlds Project

The New Worlds Project is a creative writing project launched in August 2003 to the public after several years of development.

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Non-player character

A non-player character (NPC) in a game is any character that is not controlled by a player.

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Online chat

Online chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver.

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Online text-based role-playing game

An online text-based role playing game is a role-playing game played online using a solely text-based interface.

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Play-by-mail game

Play-by-mail games, or play-by-post games, are games, of any type, played through postal mail or email.

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Play-by-post role-playing game

A play-by-post role-playing game (or sim) is an online text-based role-playing game in which players interact with each other and a predefined environment via text.

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Player versus player

Player(s) versus player(s), better known as PvP, is a type of multiplayer interactive conflict within a game between two or more live participants.

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Plot hole

In fiction, a plot hole, plothole or plot error is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.

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ProBoards

ProBoards is a free, remotely hosted message board service that facilitates online discussions by allowing people to create their own online communities.

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Reblogging

Reblogging (or, in Twitter parlance, retweeting) is the mechanism in blogging which allows users to repost the content of another user's post with an indication that the source of the post is another user.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game and abbreviated to RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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Role-playing game system

A role-playing game system is a set of game mechanics used in a role-playing game (RPG) to determine the outcome of a character's in-game actions.

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Scene (drama)

In drama, a scene is a unit of action, often a subdivision of an act.

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Software

Computer software, or simply software, is a generic term that refers to a collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built, that actually performs the work.

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Tumblr

Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Wetpaint

Wetpaint is an internet company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Function(X).

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Wiki

A wiki is a website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-by-post_role-playing_game

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