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Role-playing is used to equip future practitioners with experience in using diverse skills, structures, and methods to handle various mediation and facilitation scenarios. These roleplays usually have students roleplaying both the mediation-facilitation and client-sides of the interactions; however, more intense or complicated scenarios can be ...
Role-playing game theory is the study of role-playing games (RPGs) as a social or artistic phenomenon, also known as ludology.RPG theories seek to understand what role-playing games are, how they function, and how the gaming process can be refined in order to improve the play experience and produce better game products.
Role-playing or roleplaying 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. While the Oxford English Dictionary offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role", [1] in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses:
Role-playing games often use polyhedral dice to resolve game actions. The set of rules of a role-playing game is known as its game system; the rules themselves are known as game mechanics. Although there are game systems which are shared by many games, for example, the d20 system, many games have their own, custom rules system. Game rules ...
Role-Playing Mastery, published in 1987 by TarcherPerigee, is a book about role-playing games that presents tactics and strategies, as well as procedures used during play, and also goes into detail on how game systems are constructed. [1]
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.It does not allow the game to be played entirely within the computer.
Continuum: Roleplaying in the Yet (stylized as C°ntinuum: roleplaying in The Yet) is a science fiction role-playing game about time travel created by Chris Adams, Dave Fooden and Barbara Manui and published by Aetherco/Dreamcatcher. The Continuum also refers to a collective group of time travelers as a whole and the society they inhabit in the ...
Dallas: The Television Role-Playing Game is a role-playing game created by the wargame publisher Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1980 based on the popular television soap opera Dallas. The game was an attempt by debt-ridden SPI to find a new audience, but it was "a massive failure, one of the biggest in the history of RPGs" and also ...