• Role-playing Games

  • Children's role-playing games
  • Family role-playing games
  • Plot-type game
  • Massive role-playing games
  • Role-playing and Psychology
  • Computer role-playing games
  • Table role playing

Gladiators of the Roman Empire went to their death, not only against each other or wild animals. Sometimes, the Coliseum was transformed into an arena in which reconstructed the great battles of the past. Roman audiences love to watch role-playing games - only the "hits" and "mertvyatnik" in their conception is not included, as the organizers called for the highest realism.

Naturally, such views are far from role-playing game in the modern sense. But in terms of reconstruction it was an incredibly impressive sight. That there is a scene of sea battles (naumahii or navmahii), played out on the orders of Emperor Claudius in the I century BC, which was staged by the famous naval battle of Rhodes and Sicilian fleets. In the dramatization was attended by 50 of these war triremes, 20,000 soldiers (of criminals sentenced to the arena), 500 000 people - almost all capable population of Rome.

Naumahiya "modernity" - Milan, 1807.

These "role-playing skits" were played in different cultures, mostly, of course, for the kings and the aristocracy, who could afford to throw with impunity human resources. But this is not the only example of a manifestation of the elements of role-playing game in the most basic forms of culture and nation-wide.

This national holidays (clearly acted out according to certain rules), folk theater (with a fixed role-types and passed through the centuries of the plot), carnivals and a mega-serious, but through role-model, well-known secret orders and lodges. Knighthood Middle Ages can be called a role-playing game, as embodied in reality - the Knights played "themselves on the Courteous fees and tournaments, depicting images of Arthurian archetype.

Human culture is permeated by various forms of role-playing game from ancient eras to the present day. This clearly shows that the game forms and laws are relevant in any culture of any era, because there is a fundamental need that motivates someone to overshadow the real self and the world around us and try to dive into the world of mythical, nonexistent, in "secondary reality".

New time offers suggestions role-playing game. But the modern stage of development of Ingushetia to the west and we are different. Russian RIZHD were more spontaneous and (what irony!) Is much poorer, they opted for an individual component of the role and liberties of the story. A Western counterparts tend primarily to the reconstruction of the events and surroundings, and not even to the theater - namely, the festival being immersed in the reality of the past.

That is, the personal role-playing component (the character, motivation and objectives of each character) in the Western role-playing games gives the formal term roles (social status, the suit, following the script and the task team).
This activity may relate to role-play very indirectly, and it's called creative movement anahronistov. Born in 1966 in California, move quickly out of print in the U.S. and Europe, then came to Australia and Japan and other countries. First - As the holiday entertaining format, and then became more serious direction is rekonstruktorskoy and festival activities.