Recreatia: Roleplaying Games The world of Rolepaying Games...a world of imagination, books, and funny-shaped dice. It's a world I visited as a kid and remember fondly as an adult. Briefly, RPGs are collective storytelling. One player is the GameMaster who controls the plot. Players use dialog, logic, imagination, and improvisation to successfully move their characters along the storyline. There's no real "winner." What you achieve depends on your participation. Over three decades, RPGs have fought the stigma the public has that they are played only by arrested-development males who know more about junk food and slide rules than social skills. Partially true, but that isn't the norm. Ironically, RPGs are actually more social entertainment than passive movie-watching and more intellectual than other social gatherings. Here's a quick index of what's here: Roleplaying Picks: Favorite game descriptions and info Conventions: Cons coming to the area. Archives: Usenet highlights, miscellaneous user submissions, and any other info I can find about games, game info, gamers, and gaming culture. RPG POST MORTEM HALL OF FAME! Funny stories of characters and their fatal faux pas. The Pulling Report. Author Michael Stackpole's famous study on anti-RPG public backlash by by certain critics claiming RPGs are offensive or dangerous. LAWYER INSURANCE: All commercial products/events/creations mentioned on these pages are © their respective manufacturers/organizers, and their mention here is not a challenge of that copyright.

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