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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 2264400" data-attributes="member: 813">The generic definitionStart with an overview"A role-playing game is the childhood game of "Let's pretend" grown up."I think it is important to include those last two words in any sentence you include the phrase "Let's pretend." Now explore "Let's pretend.""As a kid, you and your friends would run around while playing, say, cops and robbers yelling bang at one another and then having a 30 minute argument over who shot who first. In a RPG, there are rules for determining the outcome of events using dice or other randomizers."Now introduce characters and GMing. This is the generic method, if she has a specific genre she's really into, you could tailor this toward it."You control an avatar in a make-believe world described by one of the other players who is in charge of describing all that is around your avatar. Usually, there are multiple players whose avatars interact to achieve mutually beneficial goals. Your avatar is like a character in  novel or movie except that you are in charge of his actions and dialog."After that there will be questions. Answer them. Go into specifics. Ultimately, she will have to see a game to really grok it.</blockquote>