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Some Of The Roots Of Role-playing Games (rpgs) Are Grounded In Clinical And Academic Role Assumption And Role-playing Exercises.

The Books I Write Because I Want To Read Them, The Games Because I Want To Play Them, And Stories I Tell Because I Find Them Exciting Personally.

Pen-and-paper Role-playing Is Live Theater And Computer Games Are Television. People Want The Convenience And Instant Gratification Of Turning On The Tv Rather Than Getting Dressed Up And Going Out To See A Live Play. In The Same Way, The Computer Is A More Immediately Accessible Way To Play Games.

Of Course As Children, We All, In All Cultures And Societies, Learn Behavior From Observation, Imitation, And Encouragement Of Various Kinds. So By The Suggestion Made, We All 'pretend' Most Of The Time.

I Foresee Online Gaming Changing When There Are Good Audio-visual Links Connecting The Participants, Thus Approximating Play In A Face-to-face Group.