The Role Playing Games

The role playing games are interpretation games, the easier way to explain them is like a theatrical play but without a script, there is a “Master” or “Story-teller” wich is the director of this play, and all the players are the actors.

To play role playing games, you need a few things, to start, the players, normally between 3 and 5 players, some games need less people like the terror games or more people like in the “live role playing games” where the people not olnly explain the situations they do, but they really act them. Another critical part is the story-teller, the story teller job is to create the world, with all the important things, characters (non playing characters), maps, the history they will face and of course guide the players. The physical materials needed are dices, character sheets (where the character is written like if it was a curriculum vitae), pencils, and the guides to take the game on (story teller’s guide, player’s guide, etc).

My faorite game is Vampire: The masquerade, in this game you are a vampire, you need blood to live and the light of the sun will kill you just like fire, in this game you can impersonate a vampire of the 13 clans, each one with different powers and flaws, this game is in the psycological terror category and is one of the games that allow more interpretation, because is a very social game, where the plots are the kings and the secrets are the queens, is very fun, sadly now there is not many time to play, but some days we gather with a few friends and roll the dices for the times gone.