To understand a role-playing game, we’ll explain as follows: it’s time for you to gather with your friends or with interesting people you met not long ago. One of them is designing an adventure and wants the rest of the group to be the heroes of that story.
How? By taking a role-playing game book, reading the rules and caring to describe a world to you, the players who will have to use their characters’ sheets to interact with that world. The guide of this story will describe the scenes and interpret the people and entities the players will interact with. The players, for their part, will make decisions, plan solutions and will be involved in combat, giving intensity and fantasy to the story. This story can take the form of several sessions so the characters would get benefits through their experiences with the world. Or well you could focus the whole story in one explosive and fun session.
Or well, now that you know what it is, it could be you who grabs the manual of your role-playing game and decide to narrate a story for your friends, with the help of the book to understand your delimitations and your players’. You make a fun story for your circle, so both you and them have fun. You could even meet the next time to continue the story, through which the characters will evolve.
While these facts aren’t 100% scientific, role-playing games help us to relax and to develop different trains of thought. They allow us to position ourselves behind a character’s eyes, increases our charisma and empathy and it makes us have a good time.
That’s what a role-playing game is about. If you want to know more about this Cyberpunk role-playing game, Neon & Lithium Stories, check this link.