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Dallas (role-playing Game)
''Dallas: The Television Role-Playing Game'' is a role-playing game created by the wargame publisher Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1980 based on the popular television soap opera ''Dallas''. The game was an attempt by debt-ridden SPI to find a new audience, but the game did not sell well and also alienated their wargame clientele. Description ''Dallas'', the second licensed role-playing game (after '' Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier'' (1978) from Heritage Models), is a TV soap-opera/crime system in which the players take on the roles of major characters from the ''Dallas'' TV series, and interact with each other in "plots." Character abilities include power, persuasion, coercion, seduction, investigation, and luck; ability scores are compared and dice are rolled to determine the results of actions. Components The game box contains: *16-page "Rules of Play" *16-page "Scriptwriter's Guide" for the Director * "Major Characters" booklet outlining the nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Schick
Lawrence Schick is a game designer and writer associated with role-playing games. Early life and education Schick attended Kent State University Kent State University (KSU) is a public research university in Kent, Ohio. The university also includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio and additional facilities in the region and internationally. Regional campuses are located in As ... in Ohio. Career Schick, as the head of design and development at TSR, brought aboard Tom Moldvay and David Cook (game designer), David Cook and many other new employees as TSR continued to grow in the early 1980s. Schick created ''White Plume Mountain'' in 1979, an Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons), adventure module for the ''Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game, published by TSR in 1979; the adventure was incorporated into the Greyhawk setting after the publication of the ''World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Role-playing Games Based On Television Series
Role-playing or roleplaying is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role. While the '' Oxford English Dictionary'' offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role", in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses: * To refer to the playing of roles generally such as in a theatre, or educational setting; * To refer to taking a role of a character or person and acting it out with a partner taking someone else's role, often involving different genres of practice; * To refer to a wide range of games including role-playing video game (RPG), play-by-mail games and more; * To refer specifically to role-playing games. Amusement Many children participate in a form of role-playing known as make believe, wherein they adopt certain roles such as doctor and act out those roles in character. Sometimes make believe adopts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
