| rdfs:comment | - Usually shortened to 'RP', role-playing is when a player assumes the identity of their character, as if it were a real life. Everyone has done it in one form or another, mostly when they were children, pretending to be knights, or cowboys. Here, we play characters that fit into the lore and backstory of the world as a form of escapism and storytelling, but most importantly, for fun.
- Role-playing is the act of taking on a fictional role in a fictional plot, often on a forum specially designed for this activity, though, role-playing may also be done over instant message clients, chat rooms, e-mail, "pen and paper", and live play. Role-plays that involve multiple users and textual methods can be compared to collaborative, interactive books, while role-plays involving live-play can be compared to stage acting. Role-playing is considered a form of entertainment.
- Once Marvin was on the S.S. Grayback, and he was pretending that he was a special agent that was there to save the Imprisoned American Scientist. Wendy told him to knock it off with the fantasy, because they're supposed to be watching for Professor Baffles, but Marvin ignored her, continuing with his role-playing game.
- Role-Playing is one of subforums in ROBLOX Forum. It have over 7,600,000 posts and nearly 135,000 threads. People are using it to make a roleplay thread, but there are many posts about that this thread have too many bad stories.
- For some players, Oberin is just a place to talk to new virtual friends and have fun hunting some nasties. Other players, however, enjoy role-playing. This means that they create a story behind the character they choose to play, and behave accordingly to the character's specific features (sometimes quite different from the real person behind the computer). It is also an opportunity to create a story-line that will dictate the way a character reacts to several situations.
- Role-playing, sometimes referred to as RP, is when players assume the identity of their RuneScape account as if it were real life. Players who role-play often develop non-canonical back-stories and histories for their characters. Many times they assign their character a home town and even an actual home, such as a mostly empty building. They may also assign their character a job whilst in game, dressing and acting as one would act if they really had such a job, sometimes by running personal shops.
- A role-playing game is a game in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their wikipedia:characterisation, and the actions succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. Within the rules, they may improvise freely; their choices shape the direction and outcome of the games.
- Role-playing, sometimes referred to as RP, is when players assume the identity of their RuneScape account as if it were real life. Rather than using the character as a tool, they become the character. Players who role-play often develop non-canonical back-stories and histories for their characters. Many times they assign their character a home town and even an actual home, such as a mostly empty building. They may also assign their character a job whilst in game, dressing and acting as one would act if they really had such a job, sometimes by running personal shops.
- Role-playing in Middle-Earth in which the participants assume the roles of characters from Middle-Earth and experience Adventures, stories set in the fictional Background of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium can be traced back to the 1970ies, with earliest beginnings of early pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, when Game-Masters started to adapt D&D for a Tolkienesque Background or even earlier with miniature wargames such as Chainmail or Reaper during the 1960s. see:
* Games set in Middle-Earth
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| abstract | - Role-playing in Middle-Earth in which the participants assume the roles of characters from Middle-Earth and experience Adventures, stories set in the fictional Background of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium can be traced back to the 1970ies, with earliest beginnings of early pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, when Game-Masters started to adapt D&D for a Tolkienesque Background or even earlier with miniature wargames such as Chainmail or Reaper during the 1960s. In many of these RPGs players choose from several available Races, peoples or cultures of middle-earth and one ore more professions, orders or callings to create hero characters (or PCs, player characters) who are led through a storyline (or campaign) by a narrator (the Game-master) who describes scenes and scenarios and enacts the non-player characters (NPCs). Other forms of RPGs include Miniature Board Games, Strategy Board Games, Collectible Card Games, Play-by-mail and play-by-e-mail games, Forum- or discussion-board RPGS, MUDs or MUSHs and Computer or Video RPGs. see:
* Games set in Middle-Earth
* Conversions
- Role-playing, sometimes referred to as RP, is when players assume the identity of their RuneScape account as if it were real life. Players who role-play often develop non-canonical back-stories and histories for their characters. Many times they assign their character a home town and even an actual home, such as a mostly empty building. They may also assign their character a job whilst in game, dressing and acting as one would act if they really had such a job, sometimes by running personal shops. Another common staple of role-playing is outfitting. Players can make equipment, base clothing, and other cosmetic appearance changes to suit whatever role they are playing. Even many NPC appearances can be mimicked, such as Guards and Black Knights. Players who chose to role play a warrior often choose to use steel equipment since it is widely considered more realistic than other RuneScape-specific materials. Players who role-play do not acknowledge that they are in a game and will speak as their role would. Some will also choose to adopt an medieval accent, since much of RuneScape draws from middle age culture, and because of this many role-players act as if they too are in the middle ages. When players need to break character, they often indicate this, such as by saying "ooc" (an acronym for "out of character") or by encasing the parts which break character in parentheses. The current role-playing themed world on RuneScape is 42, however many players who log into that world have no interest in role playing, and are there for other reasons such as less lag or a friend who is on. Role-players can ignore players who do not role-play, or take the more humourous route of refusing to break character and insisting that the non-role-players do not make sense. Players can limit the effect that non-roleplayers have on their gameplay by choosing a low-population area such as Gnome Stronghold or Tirannwn, and avoiding heavily populated areas such as Varrock or Falador. Clan Chats are commonly used to gather roleplayers into a certain area and be able to keep in touch, both in roleplay and Ooc.
- Usually shortened to 'RP', role-playing is when a player assumes the identity of their character, as if it were a real life. Everyone has done it in one form or another, mostly when they were children, pretending to be knights, or cowboys. Here, we play characters that fit into the lore and backstory of the world as a form of escapism and storytelling, but most importantly, for fun.
- Role-playing is the act of taking on a fictional role in a fictional plot, often on a forum specially designed for this activity, though, role-playing may also be done over instant message clients, chat rooms, e-mail, "pen and paper", and live play. Role-plays that involve multiple users and textual methods can be compared to collaborative, interactive books, while role-plays involving live-play can be compared to stage acting. Role-playing is considered a form of entertainment.
- Once Marvin was on the S.S. Grayback, and he was pretending that he was a special agent that was there to save the Imprisoned American Scientist. Wendy told him to knock it off with the fantasy, because they're supposed to be watching for Professor Baffles, but Marvin ignored her, continuing with his role-playing game.
- A role-playing game is a game in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their wikipedia:characterisation, and the actions succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. Within the rules, they may improvise freely; their choices shape the direction and outcome of the games. Role-playing can also be done online in the form of group story creation, involving anywhere from two to several hundred people, utilizing public forums, private message-boards, mailing lists, chat-rooms, and instant-messaging chat clients (e.g. MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ) to build worlds and characters that may last a few hours, or several years. Message boards such as ProBoards and InvisionFree are popularly used for role-playing. Often on forum-based roleplays, rules and standards are set up, such as a minimum word count, character applications and "plotting" boards to increase complexity and depth of story. For some, romance and sex (though more often the former) are key elements to publicly-viewable role-plays, with the majority of such play taking place in chat-rooms or so-called "1×1" (one-on-ones) and very small groups, with other elements taking a back-seat in terms of importance. Typically, for medium and large groups of role-players, and large role-plays, the reverse is true, with romantic sub-plots taking a back-seat to story and setting development and action scenes, yet when it does occur, it is often (and in some cases expected to be) of a far less blatant nature. There are different genres of which one can choose while role-playing, including, but not limited to, fantasy, modern, medieval, steam punk, historical, etc. Books, movies or games can be, and often are, used as a basis for role-plays (which in such cases may be deemed "collaborative fan-fiction"), with players either assuming the roles of established canon characters or using those the players themselves create ("Original Characters") to replace—or exist along side—characters from the book, movie or game, playing through well-trodden plots as alternative characters, or expanding upon the setting and story outside of its established canon. Role playing takes years to master, but it does not take too long to learn the basics. Another type of role-playing game is done on Bebo. People create accounts for characters in various genres such as Harry Potter, and then go onto other role-player accounts and role-play with each other until relationships and friendships are created through the stories.
- For some players, Oberin is just a place to talk to new virtual friends and have fun hunting some nasties. Other players, however, enjoy role-playing. This means that they create a story behind the character they choose to play, and behave accordingly to the character's specific features (sometimes quite different from the real person behind the computer). It is also an opportunity to create a story-line that will dictate the way a character reacts to several situations. Role-players are also those that (usually) show more concern about proper punctuation and capitalization. As funny as it may seem, this fact leads some people to believe that some role-players are GMs. In Oberin, role-playing is not enforced; you can do pretty much whatever you want, and speak about whatever you want. As long as you don't break the ToS, of course! During RTQs, however, you might find that most people try to role-play, in order to talk to the Quest Characters. After all, QChars ignore what's going on in the modern world, and are often insensitive to the fact that a player "g2g and cul8r."
- Role-Playing is one of subforums in ROBLOX Forum. It have over 7,600,000 posts and nearly 135,000 threads. People are using it to make a roleplay thread, but there are many posts about that this thread have too many bad stories.
- Role-playing, sometimes referred to as RP, is when players assume the identity of their RuneScape account as if it were real life. Rather than using the character as a tool, they become the character. Players who role-play often develop non-canonical back-stories and histories for their characters. Many times they assign their character a home town and even an actual home, such as a mostly empty building. They may also assign their character a job whilst in game, dressing and acting as one would act if they really had such a job, sometimes by running personal shops. Another common staple of role-playing is outfitting. Players can make equipment, base clothing, and other cosmetic appearance changes to suit whatever role they are playing. Even many NPC appearances can be mimicked, such as Guards and Black Knights, although not so easily as certain armour updates have not been applied to the correct NPCs. Players who role-play do not acknowledge that they are in a game and will speak as their role would. Some will also choose to adopt a medieval accent, since much of RuneScape draws from middle age culture, and because of this many role-players act as if they too are in the Middle Ages. When players need to break character, they often indicate this, such as by saying "ooc" (an initialism for "out of character") or by encasing the parts which break character in parentheses. The current role-playing themed worlds on RuneScape are 41 (F2P) and 42 (P2P), however many players who log into those worlds have no interest in role-playing, and there are other reasons such as less lag or a friend who is on. However, in a patch note a notice was added telling people that they are on a role-play world. Role-players can ignore players who do not role-play, or take the more humorous route of refusing to break character and insisting that the non-role-players do not make sense. Players can limit the effect that non-role-players have on their gameplay by choosing a low-population area such as Gnome Stronghold, Tirannwn and Dragontooth island, and avoiding heavily populated areas such as Varrock or Falador though Falador is the most common place to find a freelancing role-player. Clan Chats are commonly used to gather role-players into a certain area and be able to keep in touch, both in role-play and ooc. One of the largest problems role-players face are trolls. If a non-role-playing player logs on, they will often troll a role-player by doing such things as putting down multi-cannons, performing emotes, or burning logs wherever the role-play is happening. Currently, the most popular areas to role-play are in Falador (The Rising Sun Inn) and in the Hair of the Dog Inn located in Canifis, Morytania. Some towns and/or cities in the world 42 role-play "universe" even have self-proclaimed rulers, along with systems of government and laws for each town or "hold". Players may often use their houses to make the game more interesting. Most of the houses that will be used, the users construction level may usually be above level 50 or more. It is another way to show off how high-class their house is. Most of the time the other playing users will leave during game because of lack of interest, they don't know what Role-Playing is and they leave when they learn or because when the host starts the game it is too late for the other users. (The users may be from another country or state which means that the time may be different) RuneScape encourages users to use their creativity to have more fun and enjoy playing on RuneScape. RuneScape offers a quick guide in their forums. Occasionally while role-playing, the host will require the players to have a certain costume. This host may not give the costumes away for free, therefore the players will have to pay. If one would like to know the politics, characters, and lore that RuneScape roleplay follows, one may go to their wikia, located at www.rsroleplay.wikia.com
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