A role-playing game (RPG; often roleplaying game) is a game in which the participants
assume the roles of fictional characters and collaboratively create or
follow stories. Participants determine the actions of their characters
based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according
to a formal system of rules and guidelines. Within the rules, players
can improvise freely; their choices shape the direction and outcome of
the games.
A role-playing game has no winners, the main purpose of the game is to have fun playing it. That makes role-playing
games fundamentally different from board games, card games, sports and most other types of games. Role-playing games
are more collaborative and social than competitive.[1] A typical role-playing game unifies its participants to play as
a group, instead of in competition. Like serials or novel sequences, these episodic games are often played in weekly
sessions over a period of months or even years, although one session games are also common.
Role-playing games are a form of interactive and collaborative storytelling. Like novels or films, role-playing games
appeal because they engage the imagination. 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. Such role-playing games extend an older tradition of storytelling games where a small
party of friends collaborate to create a story. Most role-playing games are conducted like radio drama: only the spoken
component is acted, and players speak out of character to describe action and discuss game mechanics. The genre of
role-playing games in which players do perform their characters' physical actions is known as live-action roleplaying
games (LARP).
While simple forms of role-playing exist in traditional children's games such as "cops and robbers", "cowboys and
Indians" and "playing house", role-playing games add a level of sophistication and persistence to this basic idea.
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, credible challenge or full-blown simulations
of real-world processes.
Video games incorporating settings and game mechanics found in role-playing games are referred to as computer
role-playing games, or CRPGs. Due to the popularity of CRPGs, the terms "role-playing game" and "RPG" have both to some
degree been co-opted by the video gaming industry; as a result, traditional non-digital pastimes of this sort are
increasingly being referred to as "pen and paper" or "tabletop" role-playing games, though neither pen and paper nor a
table are strictly necessary.
Our roster of RP Gaming include:
- B.E.S.M
- Rainbow Colored Nights
- Cyberpunk V3:
- Serenity/Firefly
- Cyber generation:
- Cyberpunk V3:
- Iron Person Kung Fu Fighting
- B.E.S.M - LARP
- Shadowrun -LARP
- World of Darkness – LARP