WHAT IS AN RPG?
This is an RPG, an Online Text Based Role Playing Game (OTBRPG), also known as Post by Post Role Playing (PBP, PBPRPG) is a role playing activity in which online Role Players in groups of two or more engage in writing a co-operative story, each restricting themselves to the character they themselves introduced to the story. In other words, they create characters, and Role Play as those characters through a story that can either be improvised or pre-outlined. The exercise is very similar to playing Dungeons and Dragons, but without complicated rules and systems, or the need of having all the players in the same room playing at the same time.
By using the OTBRPG method of Role Playing, like minded players from all over the world can gather together, usually in an online forum or other type of Bulletin board system, but sometimes in real time environments such as instant messaging, IRC, MU*s, or chatrooms, without needing much prior knowledge or time. This is a great asset to role players with very little time on their hands, who can't spend hours reading manuals or roleplaying in a more traditional fashion.
OTBRPGs cover a vast number of genres, from sci-fi to comedy, and the locations, technologies, and so forth vary vastly from game to game. It is advised that players familiarise themselves as much as they are able before joining a game with the world and canon of the game world.
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