If you are like me, you enjoy RPGs, but you struggle to explain them to other people. If so, feel free to take this image and repost it wherever you want. Put it on Facebook, your blog, your website, whatever. I completely concede my copyright on the text (the images are used under fair use).
Lets help more people understand our hobby and maybe sit down and play with us!
Rock on!
Very nice! I will put it up on my shiny new profile!
ReplyDeleteVery cool - swipe it I shall. Thanks for making it :-)
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice and simple way to explain it. Good work :)
ReplyDeleteVery cool. I read (or heard) someplace a long time ago this explanation of what an RPG is: "Remember when you played Cops-n-Robbers or Cowboys-n-Indians when you were a kid? OK, take that basic concept of pretending to be someone else...that's 'role-playing.' Now add a basic set of rules that determine if you actually succeed in shooting your gun or escaping the posse or anything else. That's the 'game' part. Now put 'em together."
ReplyDeleteNicely done.
ReplyDeleteI wrote a text called "Fantasy Roleplaying for Beginners" that starts with the "bang bang, you're dead", "no no, you missed" analogy. I think i did a good job explaing things. But visual presentation has more punch. I'm posting this at my FLGS and i urge everyone else to.
ReplyDeleteNice! I need to find a place to link this.
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ReplyDeleteI like it very much- nice overview laid out well.
ReplyDeleteI've always considered myself the geek among my friends, but admittedly the tabletop RPG has always scared me after I once glanced through a gamemaster's book full of arcane statistics. This poster brings it back to the pure basics, and let's just say I'm a lot more interested in the activity now that I actually understand it. :)
ReplyDeleteI might disagree about how inexpensive it is, but that's only once you become really obsessed - I don't want to think about how much I've spent over the years.
ReplyDeleteA.J. - try one of the rules-light systems out there; a lot of indie rpgs tend towards more streamlined and easy to understand systems. I'm currently trying to find people to play Dread, which uses a Jenga tower for conflict resolution.