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Live-action (or LARP): A type of role-playing game physically enacted in a troupe acting style. [ 3 ] [ 58 ] Living campaigns (or shared campaigns ): A gaming format within the table-top role-playing game community that provides the opportunity for play by an extended community within a shared universe .
A subunit of a player's turn. For example, a game may allow an action to occur only so long as the player has sufficient 'action points' to complete the action. [8] [9] action role-playing game (ARPG) A genre of role-playing video game where battle actions are performed in real-time instead of a turn-based mechanic. actions per minute (APM)
Live-action gaming is sometimes described to novice players as a hobby lying somewhere between LARP and historical reenactment. [1] This is accurate in that the game contains the WYSIWYG philosophy and minimalist rules of historical reenactment, but adds the unpredictable outcome and player-created plot found at some LARP events.
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Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live action with animation to create a live-action animated feature film . Live action is used to define film, video games or similar visual media. [ 1 ]
The live streaming of video games is an activity where people broadcast themselves playing games to a live audience online. [1] The practice became popular in the mid-2010s on the US-based site Twitch, before growing to YouTube, Facebook, China-based sites Huya Live, DouYu, and Bilibili, and other services.
An attribute is a piece of data (a "statistic") that describes to what extent a fictional character in a role-playing game possesses a specific natural, in-born characteristic common to all characters in the game.
Among the live-combat groups, Dagorhir Outdoor Improvisational Battle Games was founded by Bryan Weise in the Washington, D.C. area in 1977. The International Fantasy Gaming Society , also live-combat but with a complex rules system more clearly influenced by Dungeons and Dragons, was started in 1981 in Boulder, Colorado.