Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one another from play.... Role games ... bring players together in a mutual effort.

Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.