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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@mumbrella Well thank god - and have you considered following our lame but extremely fun roleplaying? @willow_r, @xander, @BuffySummers ...
naomieve (Naomi Eve) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:10:22 -0000
@mumbrella Well thank god - and have you considered following our lame but extremely fun roleplaying? @willow_r, @xander, @BuffySummers ...
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All the World's a Stage: Attitudes about roleplaying for the first time ... http://tinyurl.com/yjpfp9q
@CorkinglySnape Professor, why ever did we stop roleplaying on The Moon RPG? It was so much fun! (was drunk most of the time *cough*)
prefectlola (Lola Green) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:54:03 -0000
@CorkinglySnape Professor, why ever did we stop roleplaying on The Moon RPG? It was so much fun! (was drunk most of the time *cough*)
#whenimdrunk i like roleplaying!!!!!~KENIA
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