"Experience in role playing gives one an opportunity to take therole of another, to ‘‘try on for size’ a role that moves beyond the boundariesof one’s perceived role.
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"Experience in role playing gives one an opportunity to take the
role of another, to ‘‘try on for size’ a role that moves beyond the boundaries
of one’s perceived role. This capacity to take the role of another
broadens the social roles one can assume. Further, the experience of
role playing puts one in touch with the feelings of others, fosters
empathy, and generates confidence for dealing with conflict."from "Roleplaying in the Classroom"
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"Experience in role playing gives one an opportunity to take the
role of another, to ‘‘try on for size’ a role that moves beyond the boundaries
of one’s perceived role. This capacity to take the role of another
broadens the social roles one can assume. Further, the experience of
role playing puts one in touch with the feelings of others, fosters
empathy, and generates confidence for dealing with conflict."from "Roleplaying in the Classroom"
@Printdevil Is this a very old book?
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@Printdevil Is this a very old book?
@Taskerland No not really, my edition is the 1975 one.
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@Taskerland No not really, my edition is the 1975 one.
@Printdevil Hahaha
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@Taskerland No not really, my edition is the 1975 one.
@Taskerland I just find it fascinating that there are whole books devoted to "introduction to roleplaying styles" which are usually the first two pages of most games. And that those books existed around and before D&D for years.
And significantly seem to appeal to my instincts as a gamer far more than most mechanical abstraction books.
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@Printdevil Hahaha
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@Taskerland I just find it fascinating that there are whole books devoted to "introduction to roleplaying styles" which are usually the first two pages of most games. And that those books existed around and before D&D for years.
And significantly seem to appeal to my instincts as a gamer far more than most mechanical abstraction books.
@Printdevil Were those books killed off by the rise of commercial RPGs? Did educators and psychologists back away from nerdy satanist shit?
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@Printdevil Were those books killed off by the rise of commercial RPGs? Did educators and psychologists back away from nerdy satanist shit?
@Taskerland Yes. I think, but also by the the march of educational technology. Improv "lets pretend to be a tree" was very much mocked in the 80s, and it died off in the classroom, and later in the theatre where it hung on long as a warm up. Once RP = RPGs I think it never recovered it's psychological methods chic.
Programmed Learning - which was *rampant* in the 60s and 70s, and obviously lead directly to the Fighting Fantasy books, died off because it was just flat out shit.
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@Taskerland Yes. I think, but also by the the march of educational technology. Improv "lets pretend to be a tree" was very much mocked in the 80s, and it died off in the classroom, and later in the theatre where it hung on long as a warm up. Once RP = RPGs I think it never recovered it's psychological methods chic.
Programmed Learning - which was *rampant* in the 60s and 70s, and obviously lead directly to the Fighting Fantasy books, died off because it was just flat out shit.
@Printdevil I think it is still a thing in drama but on the level of 'follow your elbow round the room' as a means of getting past self-consciousness
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@Printdevil I think it is still a thing in drama but on the level of 'follow your elbow round the room' as a means of getting past self-consciousness
@Taskerland There's a lot of competing techniques now in drama and methods, but if you did into a roleplay methods book of the 60s and 70s it's very much all the joke characters people mocked in Sitcoms in the 70s and 80s (or playschool) and I think that lead to a bit of a pivot towards wanting to bee seen as serious and method.
I quite like the idea of a Warm Up in an RPG though. Ten minutes at the start "Right everyone pretend to hate ceilings really hard, what do you say?"
