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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 4542173" data-attributes="member: 3192">I've done a little more research on acting and apparently my distinction between acting and role-playing is incorrect.  It really doesn't matter if you intend to do what I called acting or not, you are still potentially acting.  If you are part of an activity where at least one person is pretending to be something they are not, you also are an actor.  In that regard, pretty much every game can be (and probably is) an acting game.  Just as being an extra in a movie shot without ever knowing you were in a film is acting, knowingly or unknowingly posing for a picture, as you are still in the film or picture, is also being an actor.  In the same way, if you play Chess as if you were the King piece, you are not just role-playing by my definition, but also acting.  The two overlap.  In fact, as long as you are pretending to be the king (something everyone does when they move the king in order to keep it alive) it doesn't matter how the other players play, they are also acting. This didn't seem intuitively true to me at first, but it was explained as the following: A puppeteer can use his puppet to display another personality or he can just pretend it is him (like the Chess player pretending the king is him).  If you use a puppet (or pretty much any kind of object like in a videogame) to your own ends, you are acting through the puppet.  It's the same as if you were an extra in a movie shot.    In all honesty, I still think role-playing should specifically denote the definition under which it was originally coined,* where you the player are in a role, not performing another personality.  Then we'd not have these game problems where I play Chess to remove all your pieces from the board and you play Chess to pretend you're a king's court attempting to avoid conflict at all costs.*In 1947 by psychologists to put patients in the shoes of another person [or thing I would guess].  They didn't want to see a stage show, they wanted the patient to experience what others were going through.EDIT: (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=n-23Xzg2YkgC&pg=PA140&dq#PPP1,M1" target="_blank">link</a>) for origin of the term.</blockquote>

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