I was raised in a religious household in the 90s so of course things like D&D were haram. I even went to an evangelical college (that's a whole post there), so I was never exposed to TTRPGs.

And it sucks, because from the little I know about them, I know I would have loved to play them.

But... how do they actually work? I think I have a very basic framework. I know you have one character you control/play as. You roll to... make things happen? Or they determine things that happen? I know there's a game master who doesn't just read a story out loud... they actually influence things?

I'm gonna eventually get into Disco Elysium and I feel like actually understanding TTRPGs would help. And there's a game store near me that hosts games, I'd like to show and not be a total noob.