RPG Philosophy--Traveller and Psychology
Everyone has their thing. Mine, more or less consistently since I was 12 years old, has been tabletop rpgs. For those not familiar, the best known (and first) tabletop rpg is Dungeons and Dragons , but there are thousands of similar games out there. The basic concept is that all of the people playing save one take on the role of a protagonist character, usually one that the player has created. The remaining person (known variously as the "gamemaster," "dungeon master," "storyteller," and a host of other titles) defines and plays out the rest of the world--the environment, the other people in the world, the antagonists, etc. Imagine a play or a movie where the main characters, instead of being given a script, were allowed to improv everything their characters do, and the script writer responds in real time in reaction to the actions of the main characters, and you have some idea of what a tabletop rpg is or can be. As I said, tabletop rpgs got their h...