Starting Capstone Subject Area: Role Playing Games

My subject area is Role Playing Games.

A Role Playing Game or RPG is a game mixed in with collaborative story-telling where players make characters and usually one player acts as a referee, this is usually known as "The Game Master" or GM.

Most players make characters in a certain setting and develop them through various interactions from diplomacy to combat.

Overall RPGs have been a part of my life for years now. And with time has developed to be a part of who I am. This project sums up a decent fraction of my personality.

Source 8: roleplayingtips.com part 3

Fear in RPGs

This article explains the subtleties of implementing horror into a campaign for a role playing game group. Detailing helplessness and loss of hope.

I chose this article because it's approaching the subject area of how games are played and horror varies from system to system, from freeform horror to a mechanical horror of tables and modifiers the list goes on!

Source 7: roleplayingtips.com part 2

Choosing a Setting

This article explains what various settings mean in RPGs and hoew to about implementing them, overall this article is directed more at MUDS (Multi-User Domains), but the philosophy is still similar.

I chose this article because it explains what is essentially 1/2 of any Role Playing game: Setting. Setting is the entire world and it's occupants aside from the players.

Source 6: roleplayingtips.com part 1

Levitate and Flying Formulas

This article details the use of mathematics to take advantage of flight and levitation in Role Playing Games. Flight has many uses especially for making maps. also battling creatures on the ground.

I chose this article is because it details mathematics in RPGS, which slowly delves into Resolution Mechanics and Probability.

Source 2: Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition

The Second Source I'm using is Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition. This is a revision of the original Dungeons and Dragons rules and was made in the late 80s.

The reason I chose this book is that it shows an RPG made back in the day, and since RPGs are my subject area it only seems fitting. D&D 2e also was around until around the year 2000 when D&D 3rd Edition was released.