As the Prussian military role-playing ancestors invented.

200 years before the "Warcraft" was born in Prussia, the war game: the officers, barons and the king drew detailed maps than playing roller chances for success, and were deciding game. Without their hobby of war there would be no fantasy RPG.

 

Pride was the Prussian War Georg Leopold of rice joke already on his invention, a game table that lets you "memorable battle theater" in his room magic "could. Sun Rice praised his joke made of wood, paper and metal designed virtual reality 1812 in the instructions to. A war game he had designed to battles at home to be able to play. And rice joke incidentally even game developed mechanisms that are still in strategy games like "Warcraft" and online RPGs like World of Warcraft "was discovered.

The 200-year development of the Prussian war-chest of the game up to "World of Warcraft" is extremely shortened so: Only trained Prussian soldiers in war games commodes, then simplified the British author HG Wells ( "The Time Machine") 1911, the war-game concept to a tabletop game in the sixties developed some tabletop players the rules and regulations continue to roll in the characters devised by the fantasy worlds to roam. And as the computer quickly and cheaply enough, digitized a few fantasy fans the RPG mechanics.

The first simulated game world

The game elements, the Prussian war game anticipation, today at Pen & Paper RPGs and computer self-evident. For example, the possible importance of a detailed map as a playground. In Fantasy RPGs detailed maps are so important because it also makes the simulation of an imaginary game world. War Georg Leopold of rice joke wanted simulate battlefields.

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Before rice joke military use abstract, like chess playing. The War designed for 1812-King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm III. an analog simulator game worlds. Today, you can tactical war game apparatus, as he closed in
Schloss Charlottenburg, on the ground floor of the New Wing is confused with a commode.

The cover can be opened and rotate so that one in 15 times 18 square playing fields are given. In eleven drawers of the dresser are Holzbautsteine square from which you can assemble a playing field. There are mountains, hills, meadows, forests, villages, rivers, as historian Philip Hilgers (
PDF document) describes the battlefield simulator once could see from the inside.

New rice was a joke 'idea, to scan a landscape and thus to make playable. As the media scholar Claus Pias (
PDF document) in his analysis of the war game, said based on this modularization procedure "in the broadest sense, nor any modern strategy games." Rice drove to his wit extremely detailed maps work (pitch-scale 1:2373) of the desire to replicate reality.

RPG? THE MAIN CONCEPTS IN FEW WORDS

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Pen & Paper RPG

Bereichnet with dice, paper, pen and regulations played RPGs. Describes a human game players the world in which their characters are. He embodies all the characters to which they meet, told the players, like the fantasy world reacts to their actions. A control system, several cubes and set numerical strengths, knowledge and skills of the characters give the game an objective basis and some random moment.

Tabletop

These so-called conflict simulations, the participants play with miniature armies on three-dimensional, lovingly reproduced battlegrounds for comprehensive regulatory battles? in historical settings, fantasy or science fiction worlds.

MUD

Abbreviation for Multi User Dungeon. A text adventure game in which several players at the same time from different computers from each other and move instead of just using the software can play. The first MUD played in a fantasy world with forests, secret passageways, monsters and magicians. In October 1978 began at the University of Essex Students Roy Trubshaw, the text-game program - and put, without knowing it, laid the foundation for an entire industry.

The same impulse can be in the 20th Century in many fantasy creators observed: The Linguist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien began around 1917 during a convalescent leave, in a note book a place called Middle-earth to sketch. He wanted to write not a novel, but history. He invented languages for his world, he drew family trees and maps sometime. "The Lord of the Rings" was just a by-product of this creation, in Tolkien feilte decades.

Playable made such fantasy worlds in the sixties, a few students who have an obvious idea implemented: they designed along the lines of the war game (in the 20th century as tabletops or conflict simulations known) rules, which force a player instead of a single figure in a fantasy world could.

War game Dungeon Master

With pen & paper RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons, it is since the sixties commonplace that a so-called Dungeon Master game as the interface to the game world - and told he determined what effects the actions of the players have. Since 1974 the game spread rapidly throughout the Western world: Because there was Dungeons & Dragons as a commercial parcel on the market.

The first Dungeon Master's history should probably Georg Leopold Baron of rice have been a joke: His war game was playing next to two parties (two to ten players in total) is also a third function: the so-called confidants. He calculated and evaluated as a "game instance and computing the impact of each round moves made," as Claus Pias rice joke 'rules together.

Rules for more realism

The rules under which rice wit 'game the game had to be calculated, are designed to be in the game world is a reality as credible as possible to simulate. Rice wit 'approach is reminiscent of today's RPGs.

Since the first test well in a role-play the concept of rules in the manner. In rice wit 'war game was a team in a generic commander several commanders command. But when a view on the game revealed that the river as a command to be interrupted and the communication was only to be restored, as historian Hilgers rice wit 'instruction quoted the players could not order exchange - it would have the situation of its characters denied.

Rice also requested joke that the members of a team with brief notes on cards to enable the opponent none of the internal arrangements mitbekamen (In-Character name role players such details today).

Rice joke worked very detailed rules for certain processes with reproducible results can be simulated. Some details of 1812 look a lot like today's role-playing elements such as movement concepts factor, hit points and armor class. How quickly some units can move, gave rice for every single joke in "Step per minute" - with special circles measure the distances the players on the pitch from. Other limitations:, an infantry unit is a round long step in the storm, it must be on the next train at least a slower pace moving.

Dice as a simulation tool

The son of war-game inventor Georg Leopold of rice wit the game system developed by his father more. The young lieutenant Georg Heinrich Rudolf systematized rice joke especially the use of dice. He presented after trials on the Berlin shooting range for average effect of weapons, that had in its new edition of the war game, but also that deviations from the reference value has to erwürfeln. To simulate the most similar to role-playing systems is still the chance. Auswürfeln had the players then and now everything imaginable - on rice wit junior, for example, as a sort Cavalry Regiment still has after it has a slope hinabgeritten.

The young Rice was a joke with his war game quite successfully - Friedrich Wilhelm III. played it well like the previous model, his son William I recommended it to him and pushed until it Prussian officers officially 185 years ago as a training tool has been recommended.

Has benefited the young rice joke of the popularity of his little game - it was in the army probably bullied, moved into the province. He shot in 1827 at the age of 33 years, his father died in the 1829th Survivors, they have an approach that imaginary worlds with rule books, dice, paper and playable characters to make. For the first time was in the 20th Century after the first world, creator of fantasy worlds were created.

At that time, to wit rice 'time, appeared very few people in game worlds. The King of Prussia, for example. The military reported Wochenblatt 1874 hindsight, Friedrich Wilhelm III. have worked with sons, officers and adjutants often played into the night, so that "otherwise go to the divergence of the high fixed family hour, 1 / 2 11 clock, far exceeded" (
Google Book) was. The fictional worlds developed such a wake, that the players the night to beat the ears.

And this is so remains.

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