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A role-playing game (RPG and sometimes roleplaying game) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making or character development.

Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines.

Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world, sometimes associated with a whole fictional universe.

The term "world-building" was first used in the Edinburgh Review in December 1820 and appeared in A.S.

Eddington's Space Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory (1920) to describe the thinking out of hypothetical worlds with different physical laws.

The term has been used in science fiction and fantasy criticism since appearing in R.A.

Lupoff’s Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure (1965).

The resulting world may be called a constructed world.

Developing an imaginary setting with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers.

Worldbuilding often involves the creation of maps, a backstory, and people for the world.

Constructed worlds can enrich the backstory and history of fictional works, and it is not uncommon for authors to revise their constructed worlds while completing its associated work.

Constructed worlds can be created for personal amusement and mental exercise, or for specific creative endeavors such as novels, video games, or role-playing games.

In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game, the Dungeon Master (often abbreviated as DM) is the game organizer and participant in charge of creating the details and challenges of a given adventure, while maintaining a realistic continuity of events.

In effect, the Dungeon Master controls all aspects of the game, except for the actions of the player characters (PCs), and describes to the players what they see and hear.

An anvil is a block with a hard surface on which another object is struck.

The block is as massive as is practical, because the higher the inertia of the anvil, the more efficiently it causes the energy of the striking tool to be transferred to the work piece.

On a quality anvil the smith's hammer should rebound with almost as much energy as the smith puts into the downward stroke, ultimately making the smith's job easier and less physically strenuous.

In most cases the anvil is used as a forging tool.

Before the advent of modern welding technology, it was a primary tool of metal workers.

Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, often with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment.

Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and instilling moral values.

Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters and narrative point of view.

The term 'storytelling' is used in a narrow sense to refer specifically to oral storytelling and also in a looser sense to refer to techniques used in other media to unfold or disclose the narrative of a story.