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Role Playing Game

Collective story telling. The subject has participated in such things either as a narrator (see DM), player or audience. They may be addictive.

DM

Dungeon Master. Also: Game Master, Game Director, Narrator, and Damn You Sadistic Killer Just You Wait And See When You Enter One of My Campaings. Imaginative being, with some story telling and theatrical abbilities, along with a good dose of sadistic behaviour. The DM tells the story that the players suff... er... experience along. Saint or Demon, depending who says what.

Player

Person that plays a character that (he thinks) is a main part of the story being told. Also: Victim. His level of experience is equal to his survival rate, calculated as a number of game sessions.

Game Sessions

Meeting for entertainig purposes between a DM and several players, in which they interact in several Role Playing Game episodes. They usually include the consumption of soft drinks, pizzas and assorted snacks. A game session may last many hours or days, depending on players' time disposal or their particular endurance.

"I've been a Player. I've been a DM. I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!!"

(Angelic chorus: Aaaaaaah!)

Like most people, I met RPG through third parties. First, they lend me a manual, then I was invited to watch an AD&D game session: first as audience, then as a player character... and I was hooked.

I played many a campaing, and after two years I prepared a map, a small script for a simple story, and started off my own campaign with a group of friends...

...that lasted for four years and then some. They were some game sessions with 10 players in the same room (chaotic, but memmorable) and some sessions with one lonely player (poor bastard). My players say it was one of the best campaings ever, and that I'm also a good DM (that is, of course, a figure of speech: there is no such thing as a good DM). Anyway, I had a ball...

I was married on April'97, and ever scince (and before: the previous months were heavy work too) I haven't got much spare time to play RPG (DMing is out of the question). Now and then I get to play in one of my friends' game sessions... and they had had they revenge, let me tell you!

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