Of course, no one expects you and your friends to go around looking for cameras, microphones, lights and cameras, playing characters created by your imagination… nor do you need to be professional actors!

It will be you and the other players, sitting at a table. One of these players will be the narrator of the events (Game Master), who acts sort of like a director: the Game Master is responsible for creating and telling the story, building a world that will shape itself before your very eyes, between opponents and obstacles, rewards and gratifications, leaving it up to you to exploit these situations as you see fit; it’s kind of like a simulation, only reality does not come from a computer or holographic images, but from the fiction itself.

The other elements of a Role Playing Game are the Corebook and Character Sheets:

Corebook: Contains the setting of the world in which you and the other players will be diving, as well as the rules that build it. These manuals, however, are different from those of a Board Game because they focus on handling character actions such as fighting, exploration, interaction with other characters, and growth (the typical level increase).

There are many different types of rule sets: our games mostly have classic rules that involve characters, a Game Master, Character Sheets, and dice, although we have written rules that, for example, do not require the Game Master. Indeed, there are many types of RPGs, such as those that can be played solo, those that are more focused on storytelling, and those with few or no dice rolls. They can have a larger or smaller setting, flavored with locations, characters and scenarios (for example, our Nameless Land is set in our world after a nuclear disaster, while Heavy Sugar takes place within a single, large city). Some RPGs, on the other hand, have no setting but own a rule system that can be adapted to any type of setting.

The Game Master, with the elements provided in the Corebook creates his Session, which you can see like a movie or a TV series. In fact, Sessions in fact can be self-contained (i.e., Oneshot) or run over several plays and become a Campaign.

Character Sheet: The Character Sheet connects you, the player, to your character. It provides everything you need to know about the adventurer you are going to play: his name, what he can do, how good he is at fighting, casting spells, driving a vehicle, and so on. Remember that as you sit at the gaming table, you are no longer YOU, but your character, which can be anything you want, as long as it is always related to the game world you will be diving into.