What is Role Playing? A bad example.

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2D6REACT

A SIMPLE FREE KRIEGSPIEL REVOLUTION ADVENTURE GAME

By Lee Reynoldson

This is a snippet of play example. Gods help us.

[[BAD EXAMPLE]]

WHAT IS ROLEPLAYING ANYWAY?

So let's imagine that both the referee and players are Tolkien fans. The three players, Colin, Lucy, and Nicky, are playing: A Ranger called Arrogant, An Elf called Legless, and a Dwarf called Grimly, and they have come to a crossroads in the game after an attack by Snorks that left the dodgy NPC Human Fighter Borrowmore looking like a porcupine, and the other pain in the arse NPCs, four Snobbitts, missing.

The Referee (that’s me, it’s always me) says something like -

Me: You come back to camp to find Borrowmore slain. He is peppered with black shafts and surrounded by an absolute shitload of dead Snorks.

Lucy: Black shafts, lol.

Me: Don’t say lol out loud, it’s dumb.

Lucy: lol.

Colin: Well, I’m glad Borrowmore is dead. What an arsehole. Can I have his sword since you gave me this lame, broken one?

Nicky: Grimly tells Arragont, “and my Arse!”

Lucy: Oh, great! We leave camp for five minutes and there’s an NPC only battle! When do we get to have a cool battle?

Me: There was the Mines of Moira.

Lucy: Running from three thousand Snorks, ten Strolls, and a Balstrog is not the same as a fight. (Under breath) GM fucking fiat.

Colin: Try facing that lot with a broken sword then.

Nicky: Grimly tells Arragont, “and my Arse!”

Me: Anyway, you also notice two of the boats are missing.

Nicky: Thieving cun--”

Me: Anyway, the Snobbits are missing. What are you gonna do?

Colin: How are we supposed to know what happened? We weren’t here. 

Nicky: Grimly tells Arragont, “and my Arse!”

Me: You’re playing a Ranger, Lucy’s playing an Elf.

Colin: So?

Nicky: Grimly tells Arragont, “and my Arse!”

Me: Sighs. “Having two excellent trackers in the party, it doesn’t take long for you to see that two sets of Snobbit tracks led to the boats, and a large party of Snorks marched two more off.”

Nicky: The annoying little arseholes have split the party. Right, I say fuck ‘em! Let's go back to Snivendell and loot the place, or go back and merk that other little arsehole Tom Bomboclaat.

Colin: So, can I have Borrowmore’s sword, or what?

Nicky: Grimley tells Arrogant, "and my Arse!"

Lucy: Can we play something else? Lol.

[[/BAD EXAMPLE]]

It is of course only a work in progress so with a lot of work it could get worse.