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The intent for this site
What we will be doing is showing you many steps on how to RP, What types of RP = Role Playing is used,and where or how to research your role play story line or charater and this site and its contents is based for uses of educational reasons

From time to time there were attacks on role-playing games, our role-playing club started in 1990. There have been scientific studies about RPGs, some people think that roleplaing is just nuts, but truly role playing can help in your drama clases or drama club for shchool. If you know of a study we haven't got yet, please please let us know. Likewise we are interested in more articles, tv or radio reports for our archive. We try to make more resources available online to ease research -- but it depends on permissions for re-print by the copyright owners. Other forms of role playing are RPG, LARP, MMORPG'S, Now in chats RP



Some researched Background on Role Playing from wikipedia
A  role-playing game ( RPG) is a  game in which players assume the roles of  characters in a fictional  setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal  acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development. [1] <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; "> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; ">Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; "> system of rules<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; "> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; ">and guidelines. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[2]

<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal;">There are several forms of RPG. The original form, sometimes called the tabletop RPG, is conducted through discussion, whereas in live action role-playing games (LARP) players physically perform their characters' actions.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TychsenEtAl2006DefiningLARP_2-0" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; ">[3] In both of these forms, an arranger called a game master (GM) usually decides on the rules and setting to be used and acts as referee, while each of the other players plays the role of a single character.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-whatisnarrative_3-0" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; ">[4]

<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal;">Several varieties of RPG also exist in electronic media, such as multi-player text-based MUDs and their graphics-based successors,massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). Role-playing games also include single-player offline role-playing video gamesin which players control a character or team who undertake quests, and may include capabilities that advance using statistical mechanics. These games often share settings and rules with tabletop RPGs, but emphasize character advancement more than collaborative storytelling.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Tychsen2006CollaborativeNarrative_4-0" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; ">[5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Crawford_5-0" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; ">[6]

<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal;">Despite this variety of forms, some game forms such as trading card games and wargames that are related to role-playing games may not be included. Role-playing activity may sometimes be present in such games, but it is not the primary focus.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; ">[7] The term is also sometimes used to describe roleplay simulation games and exercises used in teaching, training, and academic research.

Main article Purpose Of Role Playing:
Both authors and major publishers of tabletop role-playing games consider them to be a form of interactive and collaborative storytelling.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; ">[8] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; ">[9] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; ">[10] Events, characters and narrative structure give a sense of a narrative experience, and the game need not have a strongly-defined storyline.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; ">[11] Interactivity is the crucial difference between role-playing games and traditional fiction. Whereas a viewer of a television show is a passive observer, a player at a role-playing game makes choices that affect the story.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; ">[12] Such role-playing games extend an older tradition ofstorytelling games where a small party of friends collaborate to create a story.

<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-style: normal;">While simple forms of role-playing exist in traditional children's games of make believe, role-playing games add a level of sophistication and persistence to this basic idea with additions such as game facilitators and rules of interaction. Participants in a role-playing game will generate specific characters and an ongoing plot. A consistent system of rules and a more or less realistic campaign setting in games aids suspension of disbelief. The level of realism in games ranges from just enough internal consistency to set up a believable story or credible challenge up to full-blown simulations of real-world processes.

===<span class="mw-headline" id="Live_action" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Live action Role Playing, can follow under Text Based Chats such as msn, yahoo, and now days 3d chat programs Like IMVU, Second Life, Kenya and other 3d chat programs. === Main article: Live action

LARPs vary in size from a handful of players to several thousand, and in duration from a couple of hours to several days. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Widing2008_21-0" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[22] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[23] Because the number of players in a LARP is usually larger than in a tabletop role-playing game, and the players may be interacting in separate physical spaces, there is typically less of an emphasis on tightly maintaining a narrative or directly entertaining the players, and game sessions are often managed in a more distributed manner. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[24] A LARP is played more like improvisational theatre. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[18] Participants act out their characters' actions instead of describing them but in some cases this can be describing in text base along to as many act out their characters' actions were many would know it as Heavy Role Playing, and the real environment is used to represent the imaginary setting of the game world. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TychsenEtAl2006DefiningLARP_2-1" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[3] Players are often costumed as their characters and use appropriate props, and the venue may be decorated to resemble the fictional setting a real live event, movie or tv program. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FalkDevonport2004Costume_18-0" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[19] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[20] Some live action role-playing games use rock-paper-scissors or comparison of attributes to resolve conflicts symbolically, while other LARPs use physical combat with simulated arms such as airsoft guns or foam weapons. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Young2003Resolution_20-0" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[21]

Table Top

Main article
Tabletop role-playing gameTabletop or pen-and-paper (PnP) RPGs are conducted through discussion in a small social gathering. The GM describes the game world and its inhabitants. The other players describe the intended actions of their characters, and the GM describes the outcomes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[14] Some outcomes are determined by the game system, and some are chosen by the GM.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[15]

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">This is the format in which role-playing games were first popularized. The first commercially available RPG, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), was inspired by fantasy literature and the wargaming hobby and was published in 1974.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[16] The popularity of D&D led to the birth of the tabletop role-playing game industry, which publishes games with a wide variety of themes, rules, and styles of play.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Barton_16-0" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[17]

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">This format is often referred to simply as a role-playing game. To distinguish this form of RPG from other formats, the retronyms tabletop role-playing game or pen and paper role-playing game are sometimes used, though neither a table nor pen and paper are strictly necessary.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-whatisnarrative_3-1" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; ">[4]

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; ">Tabletop role-playing games have been translated into a variety of electronic formats. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; ">[25] <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; "> As early as 1974, the same year as the release of Dungeons & Dragons, unlicensed versions of it were developed on mainframe university systems under titles such as dnd<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; "> and Dungeon<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; ">. These early computer RPGs influenced all of electronic gaming, as well as spawning the role-playing video game genre. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Barton_16-1" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; ">[17] <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; "> Some authors divide digital role-playing games into two intertwined groups: single player games using RPG-style mechanics, and multiplayer games incorporating social interaction. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Barton_16-2" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; ">[17] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Yee_25-0" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; ">[26] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; ">[27]

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; ">Varieties

<p style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal;">Role-playing games are played in a wide variety of media ranging from the spoken tabletop form, to physically acting out characters in LARP or playing characters virtually in digital media.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Tychsen2007_12-0" style="line-height: 1em; font-style: normal; ">[13] There is also a great variety of systems of rules and game settings. Games that emphasize plot and character interaction over game mechanics and combat sometimes prefer the name storytelling game. These types of games tend to minimize or altogether eliminate the use of dice or other randomizing elements. Some games are played with characters created before the game by the GM, rather than those created by the players. This type of game is typically played at gaming conventions, or in standalone games that do not form part of a campaign.