subject: Role Playing Games-just Games, Or Life Experience? [print this page] Role playing games are not only for childrenRole playing games are not only for children. Despite the fact that a family can play this game, such activities are also used by employers to test their employees, or used by friends to have a good time.
Playing such games in family can be very educative for children. The rules of this games makes the children understand better responsibility, and makes them realize how every decision they make affect their life. Role games can be strait out of the box, or can be created by the family members. In this case, a single person is allowed to make the rules and to give other characters which they can develop. Such games are generally more difficult to play.
Such games are found online or on stores. Due to the fact that this is now a virtual game, the players can actually see how their character evolves and how it is affected by the decisions taken for it.
As in a training situation, role playing games help develop the skills of a new employer. Most of the time, role games are played by marketers and retailers. One assuming to be the buyer, and another the seller. Other people can also be involved, for instance how to satisfy a bad customer and attend at the same time a nice client. By learning how to behave in certain situations, the employee will then know how to react in a real life experience. In this case, there is no practical use for the virtual games, since the employee will have a face-to face encounter with the customer and he must know how to respond to this contact.
When playing with friends, this game is more than entertaining. People can assume all sorts of characters and roles to play. Basically, the meaning of this game is the same, no matter who plays it. It is though a good alternative to a TV movie, and it allows people to create their own story.
Because giving life to an actual story can be difficult, guidelines for out of the box games are very helpful. Every decision that a player will take for his character, will lead to a situation stipulated by the guidelines and rules.
Far from being just a fun thing to do in a Sunday afternoon, role playing games are a great way to train new staff and also an innovative way of teaching children the responsibility of their acts.
