Episode 44 – Not Roleplaying in RPGs, and Just What the Hell is Roleplaying, Anyway?
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Episode 44 – Not Roleplaying in RPGs, and Just What the Hell is Roleplaying, Anyway?
Running Time – 41:24
This episode is a little bit different. Shaun hopped on Skype with Kevin Weiser from The Walking Eye Podcast and Robert Bohl from The Independent Insurgency to talk about not roleplaying in roleplaying games, followed by a discussion on what roleplaying is. Also, a brief, impromptu review of Zombie Cinema.
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Comment from CrazyDreamer
Time: September 14, 2009, 5:21 pm
Re: “roles” in 4e and elsewhere:
I think that it may be useful to refer to the types of roles as persona and functions. That is, divide “roleplaying” into personaplaying (doing things according to the character’s personality) versus functionplaying (doing things according to the character’s mechanical job). This doesn’t explicitly cover things like playing a character based on their narrative role or what have you, but a similar formula of “doing things according to the character’s X” (trope, whatever) can be used to extend the system to other approaches. In many cases we may want a game to be designed for players who prefer one of those approaches to concentrate on that approach and have the rules force the others as consequences.