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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lalato" data-source="post: 562875" data-attributes="member: 9171">(Wolfspirit, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but) I think what Wolfspirit is after is a simple explanation not a dissertation.  Although most of us can speak for hours about the joys of role-playing, most people aren't going to stick around that long.The simplest explanation I've heard thus far is that role-playing is "pretend with rules".  I like "cooperative storytelling" as well, but it requires a lot more explanation.Everyone played pretend as a child...  Whether it was cops and robbers, house, cowboys and indians, doctor, school... whatever,  everyone can relate to playing pretend.The one problem I find with saying "pretend with rules" is that it makes it sound a little childish...  we all know role-playing is much more than that... it's also infantile, juvenile, sophomoric... and oh yeah... a whole lot of fun.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The simplest explanation I have for DM, is to compare it to a movie director.  Even though everyone is playing pretend, they still need someone to keep them on track.  I might also throw in something about the show "Whose Line is it Anyway".  In that show everyone plays pretend, but there is someone else leading them and making rules for them to follow.--sam</blockquote>

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