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A tradition going back to the 1970s, Role Playing Games (RPGs) are a genre of game wherein players control the actions of a character in an open-ended story. These games come in a variety of forms including video games, message-board games (play by post), chatroom games, and massive-multiplayer online games. This particular game is called "tabletop" and is the original style of role playing. A single person creates a plot and coordinates the game, while player dictate their actions in relation to the plot.
Although many players go all the way with it, you don't necessarily have to "act out" the role of your character. You are simply participating in a cooperative verbal storytelling session, where the outcome of your actions is determined by a set of game rules. This style is called "tabletop" because traditionally it is played around a table with game documents and dice handy.
The roles of a game session are as follows:
- Game Master (GM): this person creates the plots for your story and is in charge of coordinating the players, running the game, and implementing the game rules.
- Players: the people who create characters in the story and dictate their actions based on the GM's story.
- Player Characters (PCs): the characters players use in the story
- Non Player Characters (NPCs): the characters GMs use in the story
Game rules are the guidelines from which the story is told. While "free form" role playing is certainly a great way to go, this particular game does not use that method. Free form means that there are no rules and players simply tell a cooperative story. Having game rules means that the player cannot determine the outcome of decisions or actions he or she makes. It is up to the GM to determine the outcome by using the rules (often called the "system" or "mechanics").
To play, determine who your GM is, read the rules, sit around and tell your story over snacks and drinks.
It is an ongoing project to apply RPG rules to all applicable articles on Basilicus. This section not only reveals the rules for GFDL role playing game systems, but puts all those rules on Basilicus articles.
[edit] Role Playing Systems
Currently, Basilicus supports the following role playing systems:
[edit] Add your own system
Other systems are welcome on Basilicus, but we ask that they are GFDL to keep consistant with the project. Any other license could potentially make a Basilicus project incompatable with itself and that is outside the vision of the community. If you have a GFDL role playing game system, feel free to post the rules here and add your game rules to all applicable articles.
To add game rules to a Basilicus article, add your link in a section called ==Game Rules== and then on that new page add the appropriate rules for your game system. There should also be a main page or collection of pages describing the general game rules as well.
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