Just Starting
For those who are
truly just beginning wwrpg, or even a rpg in itself; this section of the
site is for you. Here will tell you what exactly you need to know to be able to
play an rpg. Though you may
not be super knowledgeable about ever thing, you will be fully capable of
playing the game on your own.
For starters I will give you a basic idea what
a Rpg is. Rpg stands for Role Playing Game,
basically meaning your role play. If you don’t know what that means, look it up…nah just joking. What a role play is: is
that you take a role, such as a Warrior for an example, and basically you play
of that role. Warriors are fighters, their bold, and willing to just about put
themselves in any kind of danger to do their mission, so if you pick up the role
of a warrior your follow those characteristics. Now it may sound corny, but
until you have actually played it you will never know what its like. In terms of what you do.
Its basically like a big improve skit, every thing you do in the game is what
you want to do, there are usually no restrictions (if there are it is problem a
pretty dumb game) and most of the time you play with other people who also take
up a “role”. The idea of the game is to interact with each other, and
accomplish all sorts of goals missions whatever you want to do.
Now
as all Rpg goes, there is
always a single person who runs the game. This person is called the Game
Master, for short GM. The Gm usually sets up the system, he tells the players
(the people who take up role) where they are, what they have, and maybe even
what they are doing in the beginning. The Gm has the most responsibility in the
game because if he screws up…All the players get the after effect, which
usually ends in some sort of argument. GM do a lot more then just tell players
stuff, he also runs all other people in the game, Non-player characters, for
short NPC. These NPC are the people who interact as enemies or allies to
players, they usually are the ones that give the players some thing to do, and
these NPC are always controlled by the Gm. Usually the GM becomes to players
enemy, this is a big NO NO. If there is a law in Rpg it is not to be mad at the GM
because is objective is not to kill the player, or to make it ridiculously
annoying. His job is just to make it entertaining for the player, and if he
screwed up, he screwed, and that should be the end of it. Another thing
with Gm (usually depending on the GM) you don’t argue with him. Because at all
times the Gm should know what he is doing, therefore if some thing seems odd,
its probably supposed to be odd. So don’t fight him over it. But there are
often times things are just not right, and usually a player says some thing,
and depending how prideful the GM is whether or not the Gm will change it. A
good Gm will hear the player and change whatever miss haps that had happen, but
a bad Gm will prideful say I meant it like that, and then some dumb way add it
into the story.
Rpg are very risky, especially in
the sense with the GM. So the secret to playing a Rpg and having a good time, is never to take it to
seriously, remember its just game. But at the same time, don’t joke around,
because then your not acting out the game at all. You just
goofing around. So if the secret
to playing a role playing game was all in one sentence this would be the way I
would put it.
”Act
your character don’t be your character”
Now
for the sake of wwrpg (wizards & warriors role
playing game), that is what this site is based on, there are a few things that
I would like to mention on playing this specific game. For one, this is an
extremely complex game. So don’t feel bad if you don’t catch on to it the first
time playing. We have so many things you can do to customize your character, or
to play your character. This game has taken several (around ten I believe)
years to make it what it is today, so DON’T feel like you are the only person
who doesn’t understand this game. For another thing, this RPG characters are
permanent. Meaning at the end of the Game you keep your character sheet, and
you can play him/her the next time you want to play him/her. I say that because
a lot of RPGs don’t work that way, you play a single
mission, and then when you are done you never see that character again. Another
thing about this game it involves concentration. If you don’t stay focused
while playing, the other people in the game who want to stay focused will begin
to just pretend your not there. That may sound cruel, but for the players who
want to play it is only fair. If one person wants to screw around and goof off,
while the other wants to be serious. You come into a conflict, because what one
person does will always effect the other. Another thing about wwrpg is the history behind it. As I said
this game as been played for many years, so there is a lot that has happen.
In game time some of the players are nearly a thousand years old. If you are
interested into knowing some of this history, or even knowing some of the basic
knowledge of the game (like different places, items, creatures) go to this web
page www.angelfire.com/realm/wwrpg
then click on the link at the bottom that says matts
real page, or main page. I don’t remember just click on the first link
available. And the last point I would like to make about wwrpg
in specific is that there is always a lot of stuff going on at once, and if you
don’t keep up with it…don’t feel ashamed. But if you desire to try going to www.geocities.com/droninthewizard
that is a player site that is built by the highest leveled player out there. He
participates in a majority of the big conflicts and decisions that are made in
the wwrpg reality. If any thing is happening, he
would know. For the most part he tries to keep every thing big that has
happened posted on his site, plus he has a lot of other…stuff on there.
Finally
I will now begin to explain in a little more in depth how to play wwrpg.
Before you visit any thing below, first view some
of this commonly used words in rpgs.
GM = Game Master; Player
= some one who is taking a role of a character; Turn = a six second time
period that you can make an action in;
NPC = non-playing
character; board = a game board (like in monopoly or something) that
gives you an idea of where you are or were other players or NPC might be, this
includes showing distance and displacement, and object placement. Figures =
this is basically just the objects (usually putter or plastic little people)
that you would use to represent a player or NPC on the board.
Basic playing
1)
What is this
thing called a character sheet
2)
Dice
3)
Fighting
Building you character.