The purpose of a storytelling game (STG) is to tell a story. Start with a situation and various elements, then the players take turns using that situation and those elements to compose a story. Each player after the first takes what his predecessor has done and continues with it, changes it, or brings it to a conclusion.
He also includes improvisational theater and roleplaying games, though strictly they are something else entirely. On a different board on respondent point out what players in an RPG do during a session. She was right, so far as it goes, but she misidentified what the players do.
What players in an RPG do is not storytelling, what players in an RPG do is acting. They are playing a role, that is what acting is. When you, should you happen to be a mother, play your role as mother, you are acting.
I suspect that the first people to call RPGs storytelling had no idea what it was they were doing, so they fixed on the first thing that came to mind that they, sort of, understood. Yet if you look at an RPG, and you consult people in the theater, it will soon come to your attention that as your Character wanders down that musty old hall in that musty old chauteau, hunting those musty old ghouls, that he is acting; playing a part.
But look up Storytelling Games and follow the leads he provides, especially under Games Without Equipment and Card Games (Atlas Games is mentioned). I hope you find something to keep your group happily storytelling till the commuters come home.
Were I an admin a certain two people would be taking a 2 week vacation from these boards.
Talking about banning people is against the CoC. Pretending to have the authority of an ORC is also against the CoC. You're better off not mentining stuff like that around here.
Were I an admin a certain two people would be taking a 2 week vacation from these boards.
Talking about banning people is against the CoC. Pretending to have the authority of an ORC is also against the CoC. You're better off not mentining stuff like that around here.
Where did I say I was, specify.
Were I an admin a certain two people would be taking a 2 week vacation from these boards.
Talking about banning people is against the CoC. Pretending to have the authority of an ORC is also against the CoC. You're better off not mentining stuff like that around here.
Where did I say I was, specify.
Where did you say what?
As another saying goes, "In need of parental supervision."
In any case I won't be reading their blather anymore.
No need to be so upset. You just need to learn how to take constructive criticism. Life will be much better for you.
You need to understand this is not the place for discussions about RPGs.
Do you understand what I am talking about?
Oh I understand what you're saying, that there is a forum for roleplaying games in general. I'm not talking about roleplaying games in general, but roleplaying games as an idea, a topic, a meme. I'm not talking about roleplaying games as objects, as physical things, I'm talking about roleplaying games the trope. Not tropes in RPGs, but the RPG as trope. Are you getting some idea as to why that would be off-topic in RPG General?
There is more to the world than is expressed of in your philosophy, or so one Billy Shakespeare is reported to have said.
You need to understand this is not the place for discussions about RPGs.
Do you understand what I am talking about?
Yes, wheter you are talking about a specific RPG or the concept of RPGs, this ain't the place to do so. You won't get any responses.
Ojn a side note, considerable advancements have been done since Plato.
Ah, I see, things must be put in their proper place, regardless of whether or not it actually fits there. Thus we get people who insist that fungi are properly placed with plants, despite the fact that genetics have conclusively shown that fungi are more closely related to animals than they are plants. (It's called an analogy, Homicidal Squirrel, you'll learn about such things in high school.)
Thus you insist that an abstract has to be put in with the concrete, when as far as I can see, RPGs as an abstract really don't fit in with RPGs as concrete items. A matter of conflating idea with thing. RPG General is for RPGs as real things, Off-Topic is for, among other things, RPGs as ideas.
You need to understand this is not the place for discussions about RPGs.
Do you understand what I am talking about?
Yes, wheter you are talking about a specific RPG or the concept of RPGs, this ain't the place to do so. You won't get any responses.
Ojn a side note, considerable advancements have been done since Plato.
Ah, I see, things must be put in their proper place, regardless of whether or not it actually fits there. Thus we get people who insist that fungi are properly placed with plants, despite the fact that genetics have conclusively shown that fungi are more closely related to animals than they are plants. (It's called an analogy, Homicidal Squirrel, you'll learn about such things in high school.)
Thus you insist that an abstract has to be put in with the concrete, when as far as I can see, RPGs as an abstract really don't fit in with RPGs as concrete items. A matter of conflating idea with thing. RPG General is for RPGs as real things, Off-Topic is for, among other things, RPGs as ideas.
Reading fail. You responded to Fascist_Cat, not me. You should try and pay attention more.
