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‎Using the pattern

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Roleplaying]] is a type of performance and can through this create [[Performance Uncertainty]] in games. [[Roleplaying]] typically leads to [[Enactment]] in various forms but not always - while [[Roleplaying]] in [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Games]] can consist of moving [[Miniatures]] on  maps and speaking as one's [[Characters|Character]] would, it can also just consist of stating what actions one is doing without any [[Enactment]] whatsoever. When it does happen though, this [[Enactment]] can help support [[Thematic Consistency]] and show [[Emotional Attachment]] to what happens in the [[Game Worlds|Game World]]. Regardless, adopting the goals of [[Agents]] can lead to [[Narrative Engrossment]], and choosing how to reach their goals and enact their interactions is a form of [[Creative Control]]. As the [[Characters]] that are played are likely to have [[Social Roles]], players engaged in [[Roleplaying]] are also likely to take on these [[Social Roles]] for how their [[Characters]] behave. All [[Roleplaying]] games happen in [[Game Worlds]] since the [[Agents]] need an environment, but the [[Roleplaying]] can define the smaller (and sometimes bigger) details of these [[Game Worlds]] and with sufficient [[Creative Control]] they can become [[Player Constructed Worlds]]. [[Role Fulfillment]] can be achieved through [[Roleplaying]] as soon as players feel that they managed to play according to the wants and personality of their [[Characters]] (which can be regardless of if they as people share these things or if the [[Characters]] succeed in what they attempt to do). [[Roleplaying]] can require [[Social Skills]] on two levels: that of enacting the [[Social Skills]] of someone and that of supporting others [[Roleplaying]] and not dominating [[Scenes]].
+[[Roleplaying]] is a type of performance and can through this create [[Performance Uncertainty]] in games. [[Roleplaying]] typically leads to [[Enactment]] in various forms but not always - while [[Roleplaying]] in [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Games]] can consist of moving [[Miniatures]] on  maps and speaking as one's [[Characters|Character]] would, it can also just consist of stating what actions one is doing without any [[Enactment]] whatsoever. When it does happen though, this [[Enactment]] can help support [[Thematic Consistency]] and show [[Emotional Attachment]] to what happens in the [[Game Worlds|Game World]]. Regardless, adopting the goals of [[Agents]] can lead to [[Narrative Engrossment]], and choosing how to reach their goals and enact their interactions is a form of [[Creative Control]]. While controlling [[Characters]] can in itself be enough for players to engage in [[Perspective Taking]] of those [[Characters]] views upon things, [[Roleplaying]] makes this more likely since the [[Roleplaying]] puts a stronger foci upon taking into account more diegetic aspects - not necessarily connected to game mechanics - relating to the [[Characters]].
 Given that [[Roleplaying]] can lead to the closure of the goals and intentions of [[Agents]], it can also lead to [[Character Development]] when players have [[Characters]] that they roleplay, and some of the actions players chose are likely to be [[Character Defining Actions]].
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 [[Non-Diegetic Communication]],
 [[Performance Uncertainty]],
 [[Role Fulfillment]],
 [[Social Roles]],

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 Given that players quite easily may break [[Thematic Consistency]] or even [[Diegetic Consistency]] when not [[Roleplaying]] properly, e.g. by engaging in [[Non-Diegetic Communication]], [[Player Enforced Actions]] may be worth considering if these are deemed important.
 === Interface Aspects ===
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 [[Playing to Lose]],
 [[Props]],
 [[Secret Goals]],
 [[Self-Facilitated Games]],

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 When done in [[Multiplayer Games]], [[Roleplaying]] are often structured so that the players belongs to [[Teams]] and this quite naturally demands [[Cooperation]]. However, they require [[Cooperation]] on another level - that of upholding [[Alternative Realities]] and the possibility of [[Narrative Engrossment]]. One common issue regarding this [[Cooperation]], and which can require [[Negotiation]], is that [[Roleplaying]] may give rise to both [[In Character Conversations]] and [[Non-Diegetic Communication]] and that different players may have different opinions on their appropriateness and how much it disturbs [[Narrative Engrossment]]. [[Roleplaying]] games with human [[Game Masters]] typically contain large amounts of [[Storytelling]], being not only what [[Game Masters]] can use to drive the game forward but also being how players can describe their actions and how [[Game Masters]] provide [[Effect Descriptions]] of those actions. However, telling what specific [[Characters]] do is [[Roleplaying]] as long as they act according to their personality and context, so [[Storytelling]] and [[Characters]] can together give rise to [[Roleplaying]]. Conversely, [[Roleplaying]] through [[Enactment]] gives rise to [[Storytelling]].
 == Relations ==
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 [[Social Skills]],
 [[Thematic Consistency]]
 ==== with [[Characters]] ====

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 [[Social Roles]],
 [[Social Skills]],
 [[Thematic Consistency]]
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 [[Secret Goals]],
 [[Self-Facilitated Games]],
 [[Unmediated Social Interaction]],
 [[Warming-Up Roleplay Exercises]],

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 [[Roleplaying]] is a type of performance and can through this create [[Performance Uncertainty]] in games. [[Roleplaying]] typically leads to [[Enactment]] in various forms but not always - while [[Roleplaying]] in [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Games]] can consist of moving [[Miniatures]] on  maps and speaking as one's [[Characters|Character]] would, it can also just consist of stating what actions one is doing without any [[Enactment]] whatsoever. When it does happen though, this [[Enactment]] can help support [[Thematic Consistency]] and show [[Emotional Attachment]] to what happens in the [[Game Worlds|Game World]]. Regardless, adopting the goals of [[Agents]] can lead to [[Narrative Engrossment]], and choosing how to reach their goals and enact their interactions is a form of [[Creative Control]]. As the [[Characters]] that are played are likely to have [[Social Roles]], players engaged in [[Roleplaying]] are also likely to take on these [[Social Roles]] for how their [[Characters]] behave. All [[Roleplaying]] games happen in [[Game Worlds]] since the [[Agents]] need an environment, but the [[Roleplaying]] can define the smaller (and sometimes bigger) details of these [[Game Worlds]] and with sufficient [[Creative Control]] they can become [[Player Constructed Worlds]]. [[Role Fulfillment]] can be achieved through [[Roleplaying]] as soon as players feel that they managed to play according to the wants and personality of their [[Characters]] (which can be regardless of if they as people share these things or if the [[Characters]] succeed in what they attempt to do). [[Roleplaying]] can require [[Social Skills]] on two levels: that of enacting the [[Social Skills]] of someone and that of supporting others [[Roleplaying]] and not dominating [[Scenes]].
-Given that [[Roleplaying]] can lead to the closure of the goals and intentions of [[Agents]], it can also lead to [[Character Development]], and some of the actions players chose are likely to be [[Character Defining Actions]].
+Given that [[Roleplaying]] can lead to the closure of the goals and intentions of [[Agents]], it can also lead to [[Character Development]] when players have [[Characters]] that they roleplay, and some of the actions players chose are likely to be [[Character Defining Actions]].
 While [[Roleplaying]] is most common in [[Multiplayer Games]], and there creates a particular form of [[Social Interaction]], it is not necessary and can therefore [[Multiplayer Games]] can be seen as a way to modulate [[Roleplaying]]. This [[Social Interaction]] can give rise to quite a number of different types of activities, e.g. [[Gossip]] during [[Downtime]], and that they have additional limitations, e.g. that [[Actions Have Diegetically Social Consequences]]. [[Roleplaying]] in itself does not specifically motivate [[Social Roles]], but when modified explicitly by "social" structures such as [[Internal Rivalry]] or implicitly by the setting through a wish to have [[Thematic Consistency]], it can.
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 === Can Instantiate ===
 [[Actions Have Diegetically Social Consequences]],
 [[Creative Control]],
 [[Enactment]],
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 [[Player Characters]]

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 Given that [[Roleplaying]] can lead to the closure of the goals and intentions of [[Agents]], it can also lead to [[Character Development]], and some of the actions players chose are likely to be [[Character Defining Actions]].
-While [[Roleplaying]] is most common in [[Multiplayer Games]], and there creates a particular form of [[Social Interaction]], it is not necessary and can therefore [[Multiplayer Games]] can be seen as a way to modulate [[Roleplaying]]. This [[Social Interaction]] can give rise to quite a number of different types of activities, e.g. [[Gossip]], and that they have additional limitations, e.g. that [[Actions Have Diegetically Social Consequences]]. [[Roleplaying]] in itself does not specifically motivate [[Social Roles]], but when modified explicitly by "social" structures such as [[Internal Rivalry]] or implicitly by the setting through a wish to have [[Thematic Consistency]], it can.
+While [[Roleplaying]] is most common in [[Multiplayer Games]], and there creates a particular form of [[Social Interaction]], it is not necessary and can therefore [[Multiplayer Games]] can be seen as a way to modulate [[Roleplaying]]. This [[Social Interaction]] can give rise to quite a number of different types of activities, e.g. [[Gossip]] during [[Downtime]], and that they have additional limitations, e.g. that [[Actions Have Diegetically Social Consequences]]. [[Roleplaying]] in itself does not specifically motivate [[Social Roles]], but when modified explicitly by "social" structures such as [[Internal Rivalry]] or implicitly by the setting through a wish to have [[Thematic Consistency]], it can.
 Examples of situations where [[Roleplaying]] can occur even when no other player are present, and thereby modulate [[Single-Player Games]], include when making a country behave as it did historically while playing one of the games in the [[Europa Universalis series]] or when playing a [[Characters|Character]] in [[Fallout: New Vegas]] as one decided it should behave during its creation. These are further examples of how [[Roleplaying]] can support [[Role Fulfillment]].
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 [[Emotional Engrossment]],
 [[Game Worlds]],
 [[In Character Conversations]],
 [[Narrative Engrossment]],
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 ==== with [[Creative Control]] ====
 [[Player Constructed Worlds]]
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 An alternative way of achieving [[Roleplaying]] in games is to introduce [[Betrayal]]. This since a player is [[Roleplaying]] when pretending to have other intentions than he or she in fact has, as for example playing a ''Cylon'' in [[Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game]] requires. By combining [[Anonymous Actions]], [[Unmediated Social Interaction]] and the risk of [[Penalties]], a [[Betrayal]] can occur without being detected if the betraying player succeeds in [[Roleplaying]]. [[Sanctioned Cheating]] in [[Multiplayer Games]] works much like [[Betrayal]] in relation to [[Roleplaying]] expect dealing with pretending not to be doing certain actions.
-The same effect can be achieved through having [[Infiltrate]] goals (and can be said to work for [[Single-Player Games]]), as for example through the spy class in [[Team Fortress Classic]]. [[Secret Goals]] in any [[Multiplayer Games|Multiplayer Game]] can serve a similar purpose but does not have to be as easily noticeable by other since players are not force to pretend to have any specific goals.
+The same effect can be achieved through having [[Infiltrate]] goals (and can be said to work for [[Single-Player Games]]), as for example through the spy class in [[Team Fortress Classic]]. [[Secret Goals]] in any [[Multiplayer Games|Multiplayer Game]] can serve a similar purpose but does not have to be as easily noticeable by other since players are not forced to pretend to have any specific goals.
 A special case of [[Roleplaying]] exists when players pretend to be other players than they themselves are. This may not be to impersonate other, but rather to be able to have a [[Possibility of Anonymity]] in games with [[Social Interaction]].

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 [[Roleplaying]] is based on [[Identification]] between players and game components that could be [[Agents]] in their own right (at least on a diegetic level), so a primary need for the pattern is to create such suitable game components. This is typically [[Avatars]] or [[Characters]] (making them [[Player Characters]]) since they can have goals and intentions associated with them which players can adopt, but arguably [[Abstract Player Constructs]] such as countries in the [[Europa Universalis series]] or civilizations in the [[Civilization (video game) series|Civilization series]] can work.
-The [[Agents]] needs goals and intentions, and some are more common that others since they inherently have more complexity and thereby let players have more [[Freedom of Choice]] in how to perform them (having no [[Freedom of Choice]] would make the [[Agents]] stop being agents). [[Internal Conflicts]] is a common solution and can exist as [[Incompatible Goals]] within the [[Agents|Agent]] or within groups of [[Characters]] through [[Internal Rivalry]]. A special case of [[Internal Conflicts]] for [[Roleplaying]] is that players can have it between him- or herself and the [[Agents]] played. [[AI Players]] with [[Own Agenda]] can be said to do [[Roleplaying]], but it is unlikely that players will differentiate between the [[AI Players|AI Player]] and the [[Characters|Character]] so this is primarily a structural observation.
+The [[Agents]] needs goals and intentions, and some are more common that others since they inherently have more complexity and thereby let players have more [[Freedom of Choice]] in how to perform them (having no [[Freedom of Choice]] would make the [[Agents]] stop being agents). [[Secret Goals]] provide an easy was to require multiple levels of [[Roleplaying]], first as having the goals that the [[Agents]] have and then trying to hide that one has these goals. [[Internal Conflicts]] is a common solution and can exist as [[Incompatible Goals]] within the [[Agents|Agent]] or within groups of [[Characters]] through [[Internal Rivalry]]. A special case of [[Internal Conflicts]] for [[Roleplaying]] is that players can have it between him- or herself and the [[Agents]] played. [[AI Players]] with [[Own Agenda]] can be said to do [[Roleplaying]], but it is unlikely that players will differentiate between the [[AI Players|AI Player]] and the [[Characters|Character]] so this is primarily a structural observation.
 Another solution, intended to make [[Emotional Engrossment]] easier for players, is to let players choose the goals and intentions for the [[Agents]] through [[Player-Created Characters]] and the [[Player-Planned Development]] of them. This can be extended to choosing their appearance as well ([[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Games]] easily does this while later instances of computer-based games such as the [[Fallout series]] have numerous options), up to the level of support [[Player Created Game Elements]]. [[Character Alignments]] can also be used to provide players with broad set of rules regarding how their players should behave; this can guide players in selecting more specific goals and intentions.
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 [[Playing to Lose]],
 [[Props]],
 [[Self-Facilitated Games]],
 [[Unmediated Social Interaction]],