What is Roleplaying like to you?

[I'm A Banana]

Social Event. Game helps me chill with busy friends.

A personal daydream. Imagination is the best description.

A movie. Action, adventure, humor, a fast pace, a plot to destroy the world, and Heroes. Just a sort of spontaneous, half-scripted movie.

The RPG, I believe, has great differences from literature, and more similarities to movies. And as a professional actor and author, I feel odly qualified to say so. Though opinions and personal experience will always differ, which is a good thing.

 

[pogre]

Roleplaying is hanging out with friends, weaving a story, and a rather obvious missing option: playing a game.

Exactly - playing a fun game mainly. We're not into the more theatric parts of the hobby, but to each their own of course.

 

[argo]

I vote Social Event and Other where other is "playing a game". I do not care overmuch for RP as a "cloaberative storytelling" experience. That is not to say that plot and character and dialogue do not have a place in my games, just that their value is directly proportional to how cool they make the characters look when they finally cut off the BBEG's head and rescue the girl. RP for RP's sake doesn't excite me much.

 

[1upus]

Posted movie and social.

Group was a tad serious when we first joined, but most of the group now enjoys the chill out, specially on Friday night sessions.

Don't agree on the predetermined comment made by another presenter when voting for books and movies. Granted there is always a predetermined end for a movie and book, but if its a good movie/book with a twist, you don't really know what that will be at the end. And to be honest, have played some games with other groups, where the game actualy did have a predetermined end point. No matter what we did, the GM always had an idea where he wanted to finish and we always got there by hook or crook.

lupus

 

[Cinder134]

Roleplaying poll

I chose social, even though I do look forward to my gaming sessions every week. We gather once a week on Sunday mornings and even though we are serious about our campaigns, I still see it mostly as a time to see my friends that I probably wouldn't see unless we were gaming.

 

[Kanegrundar]

I went with movie, personal daydream, and a social event. Gaming is all three rolled up in one for me.

Kane

 

[Davelozzi]

Why are the results hidden?

 

[Sir Elton]

Why are the results hidden?

I wanted to do something different.

 

[Greylock]

Voted Daydreaming and Social Event.

The latter is why I'm RPing again after many years. I got tired of playing with friends who were ultimately strangers on-line in computer gaming. I wanted to actually share a room with real-live gamers, who could look me in the eye and speak. And drink, and eat, and game-game-game. On-line play was leaving me cold.

Daydreaming, 'cause I often become remote, especially near the end of a game. If the evening has gone well, the game can almost hypnotise me. I get wrapped up in imagining it, kinda like in reading a good book, but it requires so little effort I equate it more with daydreaming than reading.

 

[Ourph]

Other: Playing a game.

I play RPGs for the same reasons I play Chess, Poker or Scrabble, namely competition, challenge, fun. Socializing plays a part, but I will gladly play a game with someone I don't know and who I'll never see again after the game if we can have fun while playing.