What Is Roleplaying

Roleplaying is cooperative storytelling. You are a player. The word "player" can mean someone who plays a game or someone who acts in a play. In this case, it's both. Roleplaying is an activity in which players each come up with a character, and then say what that character is doing in the story. The rules of the game act as a guide to what can and cannot be done.

There's also a narrator, the other person in the game besides the players. The narrator acts out the roles of all the characters in the story who aren't player characters. The narrator also describes the results of the players' actions and takes on the role of the opposition to the players, setting up enemies for them to defeat, challenges for them to meet, and obstacles for them to overcome. The narrator also acts as a rules referee, interpreting the rules, modifying them, or simply throwing them out when needed. The point of roleplaying is to have fun, and if the rules are a hindrance to that, the narrator is there to fix things.