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Well, I’m a ‘writer’ (a-hur hur) so RP is just a kind of natural extension to that. Though it depends if you’re talking roleplaying or rollplaying; I’ve done both, but rollplaying I’ve found is much, much, much more prevalent in tabletop RPGs. If you’ve got a character sheet and some dice and a GM-driven plot it’s highly likely you’re rollplaying. The difference is kinda nebulous, but roleplaying is more like writing a collaborative story while rollplaying is more like playing a standard computer game but in the Really Real World. Rollplaying is generally hard for the GM, but easier for the players; roleplaying ideally spreads the effort around a little more.
Back In The Day we used to roleplay White Wolf World of Darkness games; when I went to university and met ~Mat [h], I started rollplaying DnD with his group which is where I realised the difference.
Both playstyles can be fun (or unfun) though; just depends on the people.
