In roleplaying, participants adopt and act out the role of characters, or parts, that may have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. Roleplaying is like being in an improvisational drama or free-form theatre, in which the participants are both the actors who are playing parts, and the audience.

For learning and therapy

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Simulations and roleplaying exercises are one of the oldest of educational methods, having been used in ancient times and from young age. (Young children role play "doctor" and "nurse", "customers" and "shop owners" etc.) They have been used extensively in vocational training situations and in vocation-oriented higher-education courses (e.g. Law, Medicine, Economics) since the 1960s.

Roleplay simulations fall into the category of multi-agenda social-process simulations. In such simulations, "participants assume individual roles in a hypothesised social group and experience the complexity of establishing and implementing particular goals within the fabric established by the system". (see Gredler, M. (1992), Designing and Evaluating Games and Simulations: A Process Approach, Kogan Page, London)

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GabrielleAnwar (Gabrielle Anwar) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:38:45 -0000
mayonakatv: Burn My Dread: A Roleplaying Forum http://bit.ly/6QCHP4
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del_rpg (Del-RPG) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:26:29 -0000
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i'm roleplaying in @gaiaonline right now.
MarriFor3v34 (Erin) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:56:06 -0000
i'm roleplaying in @gaiaonline right now.
@loritodd As someone who writes and play roleplaying games, that one is dear to our hearts. We -punk everything if it'll make a cool game.
Highmoon (Daniel M. Perez) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:25:35 -0000
@loritodd As someone who writes and play roleplaying games, that one is dear to our hearts. We -punk everything if it'll make a cool game.
Borderlands verkoopt twee miljoen keer, deel twee verwacht: Borderlands, de Roleplaying Shooter van Gearbox, heeft ... http://bit.ly/6Ud2pg
fokgames (FOK!games) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:03:00 -0000
Borderlands verkoopt twee miljoen keer, deel twee verwacht: Borderlands, de Roleplaying Shooter van Gearbox, heeft ... http://bit.ly/6Ud2pg
@newellhj Thats Jack Sparrow....no Torchwood roleplaying...
pzomb (paul metcalf) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:01:20 -0000
@newellhj Thats Jack Sparrow....no Torchwood roleplaying...

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