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dear_mun2012-06-10 03:17 pm
butnotforlong) wrote in dear_mun2012-06-10 03:17 pm
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...and here's Bob Hale with the Role Playing Report
Thank you Sam!
Now then, acting has been around for a long time. A very long time. So long in fact that the earliest records....
....wait, what? I thought you said this was the Acting report. Role Playing? ....wait, you're not Sam!
....right then. Sorry about that, wrong report.
Now then.
Roleplaying. A curious activity which sounds like acting, but only enough to confuse dear old Bobsie here. What it involves is finding a fictional character and pretending to be them. Today we will be looking at the online variant. Where people only write things down instead of dressing up and running around. Which is good because I don't do field work.
First you pick a character. Any fictional character will do. Say you want to play a wizard, or a demon or a news anchor on a humorous historical sketch show. You simply create a "journal" and find a bunch of pictures of the person in question. Now if you're as good looking as old Bobsie here it'll be simple to find plenty of pictures. But characters from books, well you folks are in a bit of a mess. Unless your character is very popular you'll be stuck with a PB. Which I've been told does not stand for Peanut Butter, but in fact for Played By. Which means that some other persons face will be pretending to be your character while you pretend to be them. Confusing? Of course.
Next you find a game to put them in. Any game that interests you. Saymayfield_rpg, that my mun assures me is a wonderful place to live with smiling people. I'm not sure why she kept laughing when she said that, but there you go. But there's lots of games! Games about prisons, games about spaceships, games about helicopters. Only not helicopters. There are even games based on jars of jam. Which are no doubt very sticky.
Or you can even just throw them around on places like this, like what I'm doing now.
Wait a second. This isn't a real report is, it? Well then, you can finish it without my help. Back to you Sam.
Yes I know your name isn't Sam!
Now then, acting has been around for a long time. A very long time. So long in fact that the earliest records....
....wait, what? I thought you said this was the Acting report. Role Playing? ....wait, you're not Sam!
[WE APOLOGIZE FOR TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. BOB HALE WILL BE RIGHT BACK.]
....right then. Sorry about that, wrong report.
Now then.
Roleplaying. A curious activity which sounds like acting, but only enough to confuse dear old Bobsie here. What it involves is finding a fictional character and pretending to be them. Today we will be looking at the online variant. Where people only write things down instead of dressing up and running around. Which is good because I don't do field work.
First you pick a character. Any fictional character will do. Say you want to play a wizard, or a demon or a news anchor on a humorous historical sketch show. You simply create a "journal" and find a bunch of pictures of the person in question. Now if you're as good looking as old Bobsie here it'll be simple to find plenty of pictures. But characters from books, well you folks are in a bit of a mess. Unless your character is very popular you'll be stuck with a PB. Which I've been told does not stand for Peanut Butter, but in fact for Played By. Which means that some other persons face will be pretending to be your character while you pretend to be them. Confusing? Of course.
Next you find a game to put them in. Any game that interests you. Say
mayfield_rpg, that my mun assures me is a wonderful place to live with smiling people. I'm not sure why she kept laughing when she said that, but there you go. But there's lots of games! Games about prisons, games about spaceships, games about helicopters. Only not helicopters. There are even games based on jars of jam. Which are no doubt very sticky.Or you can even just throw them around on places like this, like what I'm doing now.
Wait a second. This isn't a real report is, it? Well then, you can finish it without my help. Back to you Sam.
Yes I know your name isn't Sam!
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Sorry, I couldn't resist. I've had this journal for ages and just had to.
it's awesome and you are awesome
You are more awesome.
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THEY CHANGED "LARBOARD" TO "PORT" ANYWAY BECAUSE IT WAS STILL TOO CONFUSING!
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I'm really going to have to get some earplugs if they're going to make us watch these.
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And there probably are games about helicopters, you know.
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[Looking around for an exit.]
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It's all right, if you're lucky there won't be any games about feta cheese.
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Tomorrow.
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[The shouty man is confused.]
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[He's looking somewhat distressed.]
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Which is why they should all watch our show. It's full of history and the past.
Which you can also find in this book I wrote, only 4 pounds, comes with a free Bob Hale action figure.
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You should go give her the sales pitch. She'd love it.
[This is revenge for insulting him Sam.]
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