role-players

This group is NOT open to role-players, recruiters of any type, or those seeking to promote any form of religion (discussion about religion is OK, preaching is not).

Boing Boing 2009

Cohen: Where are the age distributions for vidders and role-players?

Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

The production has a satisfyingly brooding, ominous look and it's possible to see the basic appeal for role-players and other fans of a realm that provides a limitless playing field for their own imaginations.

Servants, Swords and Sad Sex Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

Dmitri's paper on role-players, which I've known about for a year or so, shows pretty clearly that players who desire strong refuge from reality, the sincere role-players, are a distinct minority...

Lights Going Out in the Anti-RMT Bunker 2010

Dmitri's paper on role-players, which I've known about for a year or so, shows pretty clearly that players who desire strong refuge from reality, the sincere role-players, are a distinct minority.

Lights Going Out in the Anti-RMT Bunker 2010

Among the role-players at Muscatatuck are those who have fled the violence.

This Is War: How USAID workers are trained for work and danger in Afghanistan Kristin Henderson 2010

They told stories such as the one the Treasury trainee told on himself: Two Afghan role-players came to him about a clinic that needed repairs; he asked if they had any photographs; they gave him a funny look because "apparently," he mocked himself, "local, poor Afghan villagers don't own digital cameras."

This Is War: How USAID workers are trained for work and danger in Afghanistan Kristin Henderson 2010

This post seems to argue from a rather strong assumption that only the "role-players" are playing these games for escapism, which seems a stretch to me.

Lights Going Out in the Anti-RMT Bunker 2010

Even though they won't have much cap space left, top veteran role-players will flock to Washington at cut-rate prices for their chance at a ring.

A King for Washington: Why LeBron James should sign with the Wizards 2010

What is distance in if not in squares? separates the game terms too much from the in-game terms, causing cognitive dissonance for simulationists and role-players alike.

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