t can not happen due to the real world limitations. It is this freedom that is so attractive to many people as it allows them to do anything they can imagine. Role-playing has many different styles, ranging from old pencil and paper, to live action, and even chat room based ones. Role-playing has been around for quite a while, but has gained most of its popularity with the official creation of the Dungeons & Dragons series. With D&D everything is based off of some funny looking dice, a game master who is responsible for the plot, and the different player characters. Another more recent addition to role-playing is live action. Live action is very similar to a play. The characters are in costume and act everything out. Unlike a play there is no script and everything is created from imagination. With the age of computers and the Internet in effect, role-playing has started to branch out into the chat room communities. Chat room based RP’s are very similar to pencil and paper ones, but are not as dependant upon rules and dice rolls. They are more like a story in which all players contribute to the plot. With these examples it can be seen that role-playing games are similar to fantasy based books. Based on the way you imagine what the world around you is like. Role-playing is also different due to the fact that with a book the author is painting the picture, and with role-playing the players are in control. It is the ability to control a player that makes role-playing such an enjoyable hobby.A more modern and visually stimulating escape can be accomplished by the use of computer games. With the evolution of the computer, many games started with text based programs that would display crude graphics to complement a story. As time wove on computers became more complex and so did the programs that ran on them. Now many programs use advanced graphic interfaces to move the user through, this is no exception for games. Now ga...
