A role-playing game (hereby referred to as RPG), by broad definition, is any pretend game where the players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. So if you’ve ever played Cops & Robbers or any other make-believe game with some of your friends, then you’ve played an RPG before.
RPGs evolved from early psychotherapy exercises. It is clinically thought to be psychologically beneficial to people to pretend they are someone else, to see things from a different perspective from time to time.
An RPG involves the participant’s willingness to imagine. Visualize a therapist telling you, “Close your eyes and imagine that you are lying on your back in the middle of a summer meadow. You can hear song birds chirping in the tree boughs above your head and water trickling in a nearby creek. Clumps of clouds scuttle across the crystalline blue sky.” If you can picture all that, then you are
participating in an RPG. You’ve placed yourself in an imaginary world simply by means of your mind’s inner theater.
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