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Role-playing game

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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. [1]

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Acting

Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.

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Airsoft gun

Airsoft guns are replica weapons used in airsoft sports.

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Andy Collins

Andy Collins may refer to.

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Campaign setting

A campaign setting is usually a fictional world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame campaign.

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Collectible card game

A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) or many other names, is a kind of strategy card game that was created in 1993 and consists of specially designed sets of playing cards.

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Computer-assisted gaming

Computer-assisted gaming (CAG) and computer-assisted wargaming (CAWG) refer to games which are at least partially computerized, but where on important part of the action is not virtual but performed in real life or on a miniature terrain.

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Conversation games

Conversation games are games that require only conversational ability.

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CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group based in the United States that specializes in producing technical books.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&DMead, Malcomson; ''Dungeons & Dragons'' FAQ or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world.

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Foam weapon

A foam weapon, also known as a boffer, padded weapon, or latex weapon, is a padded mock weapon used for simulated handheld combat.

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Game

A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.

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Game engine

A game engine is a software development environment designed for people to build video games.

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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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Games and Culture

Games and Culture is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of interactive media, covering areas such as socio-cultural, political and economic dimensions of gaming.

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Gaming convention

A gaming convention is a gathering centered on role-playing games, collectible card games, miniatures wargames, board games, video games, or other types of games.

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GNS theory

GNS theory is an informal field of study developed by Ron Edwards which attempts to create a unified theory of how role-playing games work.

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GURPS

The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting.

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History of role-playing games

The history of role-playing games begins with an earlier tradition of role-playing, which combined with the rulesets of fantasy wargames in the 1970s to give rise to the modern role-playing game.

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Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre, often called improv or impro, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers.

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James Wyatt

James Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical style and neo-Gothic style.

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List of campaign settings

This is a list of campaign settings published for role-playing games.

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List of game manufacturers

This list includes manufacturers of card games, board games, miniatures games, wargames, role-playing games, and collectible card games, and manufacturers of accessories for use in those games.

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List of role-playing game artists

This is a list of notable role-playing game artists, past and present.

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List of role-playing game designers

This is a list of individuals that design role-playing games, including live-action role-playing games but excluding role-playing video games.

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List of role-playing game software

Role-playing game software, as opposed to role-playing video games, is a software intended to assist in developing and running of role-playing games.

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List of role-playing games by genre

This is a list of role-playing games, subdivided by genre (although many games do not fit clearly into one genre or another).

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List of role-playing games by name

This is a list of notable role-playing games.

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Live action role-playing game

A live action role-playing game (LARP) is a form of role-playing game where the participants physically portray their characters.

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Make believe

Make believe, also known as pretend play, is a loosely structured form of play that generally includes role-play, object substitution and nonliteral behavior.

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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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MU*

MU* is an abbreviation which refers collectively to a family of text-based multi-user virtual world servers comprising.

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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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MUSH

In multiplayer online games, a MUSH (a backronymed pun on MUD most often expanded as Multi-User Shared Hallucination, though Multi-User Shared Hack, Habitat, and Holodeck are also observed) is a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected at the same time.

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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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Persistent world

A persistent world or persistent state world (PSW) is a virtual world which, by the definition by Richard Bartle, "continues to exist and develop internally even when there are no people interacting with it".

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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 character

A player character (also known as PC and playable character) is a fictional character in a role-playing game or video game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game.

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Player's Handbook

The Player's Handbook (spelled Players Handbook in first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D)) is a book of rules for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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Plot (narrative)

Plot refers to the sequence of events inside a story which affect other events through the principle of cause and effect.

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Polish role-playing games

Polish role-playing games have been in production since the early 1990s.

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Realism (arts)

Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.

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Retronym

A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that differentiates the original form or version from a more recent one.

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Rob Heinsoo

Rob Heinsoo (born 1964) is an American tabletop game designer.

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Rock–paper–scissors

Rock-paper-scissors (also known as scissors-paper-rock or other variants) is a hand game usually played between two people, in which each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand.

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Role-playing

Role-playing is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role.

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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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Role-playing game terms

Role-playing game terms are words used in a specific sense (terms) in the context of role-playing games.

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Role-playing video game

A role-playing video game (commonly referred to as simply a role-playing game or an RPG as well as a computer role-playing game or a CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (and/or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world.

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Roleplay simulation

Roleplay simulation is an experiential learning method in which either amateur or professional roleplayers (also called interactors) improvise with learners as part of a simulated scenario.

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Setting (narrative)

The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction.

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Steve Jackson Games

Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid.

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Storytelling

Storytelling describes the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment.

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Storytelling game

A storytelling game is a game where two or more persons collaborate on telling a spontaneous story.

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Suspension of disbelief

The term suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief has been defined as a willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe something surreal; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment.

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Tabletop role-playing game

A tabletop role-playing game (or pen-and-paper role-playing game) is a form of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech.

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Tabletop role-playing games in Japan

Japanese role-playing games are role-playing games made in Japan.

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Timeline of tabletop role-playing games

The following is a timeline of tabletop role-playing games.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Wargaming

A wargame (also war game) is a strategy game that deals with military operations of various types, real or fictional.

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Werewolf: The Apocalypse

Werewolf: The Apocalypse is a role-playing game from the Classic World of Darkness line by White Wolf Publishing.

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White Wolf Publishing

White Wolf Publishing is an American roleplaying game and book publisher.

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Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game

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