What is a Roleplaying Game?

Cubicle 7 produces the Laundry RPG, and a snippet from that game went kind of "viral" in the last few days. The book is dark, and funny, and one particular passage appears to have caught peoples' imagination - it's spread across various social networks. It's a section which describes to a new player what a tabletop roleplaying game is, but in the darkly humourous style of the game.

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[Scrivener of Doom]

I have difficulty believing people actually talked like that.

I believe they're British so they would be using real English. It has adverbs.

 

[Zhaleskra]

Usually the only people who say things like "enter into a dialogue" are of certain persuasion we're not supposed to talk about, with a goal that we're also not supposed to talk about. While I have encountered people who use 15 words to say what could be said better in five, they are the exception, not the rule.

 

[jhsjhs]

Good game, too, if you are familiar with the books.

 

[VengerSatanis]

Nice!