Roleplaying
by: Sherirella

		Roleplaying
	Have you ever wrung your hands in Helplessness as you tried to explain roleplaying to a layperson and kept running into a wall of incomprehension?... It is very hard to explain the essence of roleplaying to someone totally unfamiliar with it... ~De Profundis (Oracz/Pica, 2001) Thats my feeling exactly.  Roleplaying is creating a person or character.  And playing that character within a predeterminded world and set of rule.  Dungeons and Dragons is prehaps an excellent example of this.  Some of the newer RPGs (roleplaying games) come after movies and books.  The Wheel of Time and the Harry Potter series.