Message 14293 : Definition of a Fantasy Role Playing game from MERP (Gimli)
Written on Mon Feb 10 23:56:03 1997

Mume is a FRP, is it not?

** Middle Earth Role Playing *** 
Thus one of the main objectives of a FRP game is for each player to take
on the persona of his (or her) player character, reacting to situations
as the character would. This is the biggest difference between FRP games
and other games such as chess or bridge. A player's character is not
just a piece or a card, in a good FRP game a player places himself in
his characters position. In addition each player character should speak
and react to the other players as his character would. 

** End "What is a FRP Game" **

Several people I have spoke with seem to not know what Role-Playing
is, thats a pretty good deffinition.