Replay
Replay ( Japanese リ プ レ イ , Ripurei for English "playback, repetition"), also RPG (session) log / transcriptions or records (role play session recordings / transcripts), is the name of a modern Japanese literary genre that is closely related to the genre of fantasy connected is. Here are Pen - & - Paper - role-playing adventure in the style of a Novel Light play: Easy readability by the Dialoglastigkeit, a natural feature of pen - & - paper role-playing game notes, as well as the low level of paragraphs - usually only one to three Sentences - achieved.
The first Japanese table talk RPG (TRPG) The Adventures of Simulation Adventure appeared on May 1, 1982 in Tactic magazine ( タ ク テ ク ス ). The first replay in 1985 is Nanatsu no Saidan (Seven Altars) by OUTBARN as a replay of the TRPG Roads to Lord ( ロ ー ズ ・ ト ゥ ・ ロ ー ド , Rōzu tu Rōdo ). The first replay and basis of the game world of the Sword World RPG is Record of Lodoss War , which was published for the first time in three separate parts from 1989 as RPG Replay Record of Lodoss War ( ISBN 978-4044604035 ) and has since been numerous manga , anime and video games - spawned spinoffs . It had previously been published as a series in the Japanese computer game magazine Comptiq since 1986 - like other replays . Since then, numerous replays of the Sword World game world have appeared, in July 2007 the number was 43.
Numerous other role-play sessions are also co-written in Japan and published commercially as replay. Replays are even more popular there than novels against the backdrop of role-playing game worlds. The acting characters are usually built up according to the classic concepts of pen & paper role-playing games and fantasy literature: They usually work together in groups and have to complete a specific task within a closed adventure. The special skills of the individual group members - for example warriors, magicians or healers - are required to cope with the challenges that arise. The characters are often designed in a clichéd manner, but in some cases they were later given a more complex personality by the authors. Not only Japanese role-playing games (Japanese RPG / JRPG, Table-Talk-RPG / TRPG), but also translated games such as GURPS , Dungeons and Dragons (which is the basis of the original Record of Lodoss War ) or Shadowrun are processed in replays.
Well-known publishers
- FEAR (Far East Amusement Research, Inc.)
- Group SNE
- Suzaku Games
- Enterbrain
Individual evidence
- ↑ TRPG25 Anniversary Celebration ( Memento from December 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)
- ↑ Sanboku Atsushi, RPG Magazin (RPG マ ガ ジ ン) No. 31