Role Play

Role-play is a serious skill and intriguing and compulsive pastime. Its value on The Scene is massively under estimated and not taught. The very fact that it is largely practiced as a bought skill by professionals shows the lamentable lack of it in the mainstream. The primary function of the LCPS project is to teach and explore role-play, rather than to alter the school scene. We are using school as a basis because it is within Age play that most role-play happens at present, generally rather poorly.

Role-play is not ‘acting’ (which is much more complicated), it is pretending, but pretending properly – it is a game, like Cowboys and Indians, and well worth playing and playing well.

If you plan to assume a school persona, give some thought to who he/she might be – how old? What gender? What background? What ideas? What turns him/her on? Why is he/she at LCPS?

Consider how you will express these ideas. Remember, in a hostile, competitive environment like the LCPS, there may be some difference between how your character wants to come across, and who he/she really is. This is not over-complication; it is a way to make the game more interesting for the other players.

Be prepared for your character to develop, just like a real person; this does happen, and it is one of the joys of role-play when it does – ‘It really wasn’t me; he/she did that – I don’t know where the idea came from!’ The fact is that you can’t create a fully formed character from scratch, you have to play with it and try things to see how they work, and if they don’t it’s still OK.