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"Hehe That's what everyone assumes roleplaying games are," the sprightly man in the dark robes says. He looks you up and down for a moment, before continuing. "I suppose that you still have some open-mindedness left, don't you?"
You nod, somewhat bemused.
"Roleplaying games may have *started* with Dungeons & Dragons," he says, "but they've come a long way from that." He looks around at the trophies of some of the roleplaying wars he's been involved in. "You see those heads?" he says, gesturing at a wall where several male and female heads hang, "Those are the heads of several vampires that I beheaded - the right way, mind you - in VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE. It was the only way."
You give him a strange look.
"Oh, don't look at me that way," he says, knowingly. "You think you understand what it's all about, don't you? Youngster today don't seem to appreciate roleplaying games for what they are any longer, and parents have heard too many bad things from the detractors of Dungeons & Dragons, and all that." He shrugs, gesturing around at the trophies once more. "But let me tell you," he says, "there's more to this hobby than you think..."
Roleplaying games have come a long way from their parent game, Dungeons & Dragons. So most of the companies would have you believe. The true meaning of roleplaying games doesn't lie in the underlying creativity of the person who creates the game or who referees a given session of the game in question, and it certainly isn't with the creativity of the players who create their characters. Roleplaying games are social events, they bring people together in a small setting to explore the "What if...?" that's out there, and to play a character that they will neve be themselves in the real world. Whether it's superhero roleplaying, adventures in deep space in the near future, or even hacking one's way through the magical bestiary of a fantasy continent, roleplaying games are a challenge to the imagination, the creativity of the mind, and the true spirit of adventuring that each of us has buried somewhere deep down. While I run several different roleplaying games, I have decided to create webpages for only two specific game that I run and play - Continuum: Roleplaying in the Yet and Delira: Faerie Tales for a New Millennium .
In the meantime, I'm sure that there is something in this set of pages devoted to roleplaying games that you will find of interest and might even give you some pause for thought. So enjoy!
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