Do you "roleplay" in non-TTRPG Games?

[Thierry-Advent]

The what now?

The idea that they would play a character in a world created, and 'guided', by another person is appalling to them.

 

[Parmandur]

The idea that they would play a character in a world created, and 'guided', by another person is appalling to them.

I...what?

But they are fine playing a wargame with a prescribed scenario and rules????

 

[Thierry-Advent]

I...what?

But they are fine playing a wargame with a prescribed scenario and rules????

Yes because all the parameters of the conflict are known in advance, except the result of the battle. There is no 'made up imaginary stuff' as you go along.

 

[stonehead]

Yes because all the parameters of the conflict are known in advance, except the result of the battle. There is no 'made up imaginary stuff' as you go along.

But like... aren't the results of the battle still 'made up imaginary stuff'? They don't think there are actual little guys fighting an actual battle, do they?

 

[Thierry-Advent]

But like... aren't the results of the battle still 'made up imaginary stuff'? They don't think there are actual little guys fighting an actual battle, do they?

No imagination involved, to them they are just pieces of cardboard, metal or plastic to move around the table to try to win playing the dice odds and best strategy. They are a very cerebral group of historical wargamers. Like chess players.

 

[payn]

No imagination involved, to them they are just pieces of cardboard, metal or plastic to move around the table to try to win playing the dice odds and best strategy. They are a very cerebral group of historical wargamers. Like chess players.

As a Battletech player I knew immediately what you were talking about.

 

[Parmandur]

No imagination involved, to them they are just pieces of cardboard, metal or plastic to move around the table to try to win playing the dice odds and best strategy. They are a very cerebral group of historical wargamers. Like chess players.

I can't even really imagine laying Chess thst way, utterly bizarre.

 

[Thierry-Advent]

It's not bizarre. Are brains are not all wired the same way: Aphantasia is the inability to voluntarily visualize mental images. Aphantasia can be considered the opposite of hyperphantasia, the condition of having extremely vivid mental imagery.

 

[Duke_]

No imagination involved, to them they are just pieces of cardboard, metal or plastic to move around the table to try to win playing the dice odds and best strategy. They are a very cerebral group of historical wargamers. Like chess players.

I can't even really imagine laying Chess thst way, utterly bizarre.

Yeah, playing the dice odds in chess would be pretty weird.

But in all seriousness, chess to me is (unlike RPGs) a game of pure strategy where you play with one goal, and that goal is winning. I can't really think of any other way to play it. It's completely different from how I approach RPGs and even most CRPGs. Like, I don't imagine my bishop in a chess game as Archbishop Fauntleroy of Canterbury going on about the lord's wrath and smiting the wicked when I take a piece with it or something.

 

[aramis erak]

No imagination involved, to them they are just pieces of cardboard, metal or plastic to move around the table to try to win playing the dice odds and best strategy. They are a very cerebral group of historical wargamers. Like chess players.

Some RPG players, especially in D&D, take the same approach to RPG play. I've known a few. At times, I've been one.