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| In [[Role Play]]ing, participants adopt and act out the role of characters, or parts, that may have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. Roleplaying is like being in an improvisational drama or free-form theatre, in which the participants are the actors who are playing parts, and the audience.
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| == Gaming ==
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| A role-playing game (RPG, often roleplaying game) is a type of game in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. Within the rules, they may improvise freely; their choices shape the direction and outcome of the games.
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| A role-playing game rarely has winners or losers. This makes role-playing games fundamentally different from board games, card games, sports and most other types of games. Like novels or films, roleplaying games appeal because they engage the imagination. Role-playing games are typically more collaborative and social than competitive. A typical role-playing game unites its participants into a single team, known as a "party", that plays as a group.
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| Most role-playing games are conducted like radio drama: only the spoken component is acted, and players step out of character to describe action and discuss game mechanics. The genre of role-playing games in which players do perform their characters' physical actions is known as live-action roleplaying games (LARP).
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| == Role Playing in the DJB ==
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| Generally speaking, every [[member]] is participating in role playing with every action or activity performed for the club. Some are more elaborate means, such as the [[ACC]] or [[Run On]]s in the [[Forums]]. In these instances, several different [[member]]s take part in telling the story, adding information about their own fictional persona and how they react to the situations provided or elaborated upon by other [[member]]s and their [[character]]s.
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