# Role-Playing If you're a role-player then you've been asked to **play a stakeholder who isn't you**. You're playing a role - hence "role-player". ## The basics If you've been given an email address and a password, then when you log in, you'll see your primary identity in the top left corner of the screen. It's this person that you're pretending to be. Note that you may also be impersonating other, additional stakeholders. You'll be able to inhabit these stakeholders via drop-downs at important places in the channel. {% hint style="info" %} Please check the stakeholder you're role-playing each time you change channel. {% endhint %} The image below shows Conducttr's Virtual Desktop. Note that it is customisable by the exercise designer and so the channel icons could look quite different.

### Other role-player activities Usually a person is asked to play a role because they have subject matter expertise. This means you are a valuable person to have on the exercise and may be asked to perform other duties such as reviewing & commenting on player activity and proving input to the adjudication process. #### Impersonation The permission to impersonate stakeholders is given by the Facilitator. Ask them to enable someone if it's missing from a drop-down list (or it could be that the stakeholder isn't active on that channel). #### Requests for information The Facilitator should inform you how to request information to better perform your function in the exercise. There may be a dedicated channel for RFIs within Conducttr or it may be outside of Conducttr e.g. in the videoconference chat. #### After-Action Review (AAR) You may have been asked to comment or review player activity in addition to role-playing. If this is true, you'll see a "thought bubble" on comment-able content. Click the bubble to leave a comment.

#### Adjudication In addition to role-playing, you may have been asked to provide information to EXCON (exercise control) that wil be used to adjudicate player activity and affect the evolution of the exercise. The Faciliator will provide you with information on how to do this. ## Using email {% hint style="info" %} Content published by the exercise will appear in your SENT folder because it's been sent by you (or at least the stakeholder you're pretending to be). {% endhint %}

## Using social media {% hint style="info" %} Social media works as it does in real life. Your feed will only show content from people you follow. Use the spyglass (magnifying glass) to see all Tweets {% endhint %}

## Website articles

## Using Communications Manager You can also use our Comms Manager in Social Watch to get an overview of all impersonation during an exercise. {% hint style="info" %} To find out more about the Communications Manager, visit the page below: {% endhint %} {% content-ref url="/pages/R9WOasL1E5iaq7QQIF7f" %} [Communications Manager](/feature-documentation/designing-and-running/channels/monitoring-and-alerting-channels/social-watch/communications-manager.md) {% endcontent-ref %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://helpdocs.conducttr.com/player-guide/role-playing.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.