DPT RPG

What is a Role Playing Game?

A role playing game can be easily broken down and requires three components. A framework of the rules for the world, a moderator and players who collaboratively tell a story. For BASIC-RP the moderator is the Game Moderator (GM). The GM guides the story and either builds the world or enhances a world setting. The GM adjudicates the rules and narrates the consequences of the actions for the players.

What is BASIC-RP?

Dice Pool Tactics is home of the BASIC-RP system. The BASIC-RP framework has different styles of play.

Why do people play Role Playing Games?

Player reasons to play a RPG very but there are three common themes that pop up the most often when asked. Powergaming is normally associated with wish fulfillment and the ability to quickly improve. Role-playing to take part in cooperative story and secondary world creation. Lastly is tactical combat and exchanges of wit or intrigue.

How do groups use Role Playing Games?

The most common is group storytelling but some people view it just as a game like any other board or video game. Others prefer to try and run the experience as a simulation. Educators may try to use it as a teaching aid and a licensed psychologist may use it in therapy. BASIC-RP is only designed to be played as a game.

What are the types of Role Play?

There are roughly four broad types of role playing styles. The first is pawn/puppet style. In this style the player is almost completely detached from the entity they control with little thought of how they should guide the entity through the shared storytelling experience. This type of player is typically only playing as a power-gamer for tactical combat. The next level of depth is guided play.