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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@DaveTheGame It is. Complexity 5... I love this trilogy btw. Nice mix of fights, roleplaying. We are having fun with it.
newbiedm (newbiedm) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:15:22 -0000
@DaveTheGame It is. Complexity 5... I love this trilogy btw. Nice mix of fights, roleplaying. We are having fun with it.
twitter rpg?! People sure don't have much standards anymore when it comes to roleplaying oO"
bassarisca (Aza v. Thunderwaffle) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:46:59 -0000
twitter rpg?! People sure don't have much standards anymore when it comes to roleplaying oO"
@choreotania ah okay. I used the Bladerunner soundtrack for roleplaying games, especially in dark, vast cities of noir style mood.
maialideth (Michael V. Drejer) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:39:02 -0000
@choreotania ah okay. I used the Bladerunner soundtrack for roleplaying games, especially in dark, vast cities of noir style mood.
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seskimo (sarah Gordon) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:31:29 -0000
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I actually can't stop roleplaying superheroes in the background. Also, this MR T thing is going to fall flat, I can just FEEL it. #MOMBcast
nixsight (nixsight) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:27:27 -0000
I actually can't stop roleplaying superheroes in the background. Also, this MR T thing is going to fall flat, I can just FEEL it. #MOMBcast
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