Pen & Paper Role-Playing Games

Pen & paper role-playing games usually use an extensive set of rules that works with simple math and dice. Usually a player takes on the role of the game leader; he describes the environment, the reaction of the environment to actions of the players and slips into the role of opponents or friends of the group. He thinks about adventures in advance – or takes them from commercially produced “booklet adventures” that the group of players has to exist. He also ensures that the rules of the game are observed. Decisions, e.g. the outcome of a fight, are made by calculating different characteristics of the opponents, such as strength or armor value and the outcome of the dice as a random element.