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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 3166795" data-attributes="member: 25619">It's actually fairly common in history and political science.  I first roleplayed in about 1975 in an elementary school history class -- we each took different characters in the American Civil War and played them interacting with the others.  And in honors European history in 1983, same thing for the French Revolution.I can still remember both characters -- a North Carolina yeoman tobacco farmer -- pro-Confederate and racist but not rich enough to own slaves -- and the Cardinal of Paris.  Being a natural, I didn't play them "mundane".  The Cardinal cut a deal with the working class Parisians and the peasants to let the revolution go forward, but with the church keeping its lands, Catholicism staying the established church, and all schools being only parochial schools.  Liberation theology is good enough for 1970s Latin America, it's good enough for 1780's France -- gotta roll with the punches if you want to keep a church around for 2000 more years, baby.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />When I was in grad school TAing comparative politics, I did a role playing session for my class.  Typical role playing that poli sci people do is the interest groups and Congress for American politics.  I picked a fictional newly-freed Eastern European country (this was 1994), an amalgam of Latvia, Hungary, and Poland, if you must know, and assigned people roles like pensioner, Communist party boss, government-in-exile from the 1940s, manager of the train-car factory, train-car factory workers, billionaire American/former refugee who wants influence in the old country (George Soros), farmers, independence activist/shipbuilders union leader (Lech Walensa), etc.  Fun to do once every couple of years.</blockquote>

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