All the World’s a Stage: The Roleplaying Spectrum

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Virtual selves , RP , (Roleplaying) All the World’s a Stage Today David returns to All the World’s a Stage , still taking a break from his series of roleplaying lore guides for World of Warcraft . Instead, he shares a few thoughts especially for people who may roleplay all the time without realizing it. There are lots of people playing World of Warcraft out there, and if you gave a survey to each one of them, asking, “are you a roleplayer?” most of them would probably say “no.” But if you actually listened to them, or engaged with them in conversation about it, you might learn a lot of things that surveys usually miss. Many people who say they are not roleplayers actually have an imagination of their character’s backstory, personality, or even just individual style. They may not know how to act out the character, and they may not have friends they feel they can act out with, yet at the same time, they do have a sense of their character as their own little creative exploration. The distinction between roleplayers and non-roleplayers is not as clear as people seem to think. In fact, there’s a whole spectrum of different kinds of players between those who say they roleplay and those who say they don’t — and most people probably find themselves somewhere in the middle. Continue reading All the World’s a Stage: The Roleplaying Spectrum All the World’s a Stage: The Roleplaying Spectrum originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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