When my brother and I played, the games usually began with an object or toy of some sort being the focus. (Just playing with toys...), but as the play went on, we would slowly begin to add more and more toys and objects into the game untill we eventually included ourselves as well.Figarou wrote:I know what role playing is. And there is several ways of playing it. You can "act" out your character in an open field with others. Or on paper surrounded by others at a table. Then there is videogames and online RP games.
When I was a kid...I never pretented to be something else because I had a hard time choosing what I wanted. I never liked this question when I was younger....What do you want to be when you grow up? I could never answer that because I don't know. If I knew how to draw, I could say "I would be an Artist."
I also didn't hang around other kids that "play pretend." I was in more active games. Like hide and seek, "touch" football, and other outside games.
A broken electronic game became the most powerful bit of secret alien technology in the known universe (and the cornerstone of his entire technological empire), and my wristwatch became my untraceable uplink to my interdemensional gateway.
Strangely...I never desired to be a GOD character. I allways insisted upon being the "underdog", with few special abilities. ...my link to and alternate dimension and near immortality only came in to play because it was necessary to remain in the game. ...my brother had a habit of putting me in inescapable positions in which I surely would be dead, so I had to cheat just to keep playing. (...though sometimes I would just stop and say " that's it...I'm dead...game over", and walk away.)
Figarou...did you never play with Action Figures as a young child?
That is pretty much how our games were played, exept that we ourselves became living action fugures ("players") in our own games.
It's funny, but I never really thought of it as roleplaying back then...or even ever untill just now. It was allways just, impropmtu co-operative storytelling...with props. Our games would spring up at any time, anywhere, with no real purpose or goal.
Suddenly, one of us would just say something like..."...if you touch that doorknob, you'll be trapped in my laser grid." ...then the other would respond..."...nuh unh...I've got my anti-laser pack. It will disrupt any electronic restraining fields that come within it's range. " and then would motion as if breaking the imaginary field, and the battle would spiral out of controll from there. ...usually ending with one of us calling upon our secret Mega-Cannons to fire upon the others base of operations. ...or our guardians duking it out in an epic DBZ scale martial arts battle. (Even if our toys in question were not actually present...we would describe the battle play by play in absurd detail, constantly one-uping each other.) "OH YEAH?!...but then he... "
*sigh* I miss those days.
