thread: 2005-02-03 : Roleplaying Theory Open House
On 2005-03-14, Tobias wrote:
Earlier I mentioned 1-players RPGs.
Remember when you were a kid, and you had a bunch of toys (transformers, kars, lego, whatever) and you played with them?
I used to play out story fragment after story fragment (rather repetetively, sometimes, actually), filling in the voices of both Robot A and Robot B, doing some (faux) tactical maneuver, shooting, etc.
Whether something was effective in combat had nothing to do with it - sometimes robot A dominated cause he was cool, sometimes it was a rough fight with whole limbs getting blown off, sometimes some mooks had to die to make a point. Sometimes is was all A-teamy, after the fight, everyone brushed off the dust and the whole thing started up again.
(I'm around 8 here, I think, I'm not sure. Does it matter?)
Where did that go? Is it a developmental phase you grown out of? Does the need for audience become too big? The need for meaningful opposition or questions posed so there will be something fresh to react to? Or is there some juicy tidbit in that kinda play most people shove away as they grow older? (Except those that play a lot with miniature trains, cars, models... or even roleplaying?)
