Playing Without Dice.

Anyone who's ever played Dungeons and Dragons should know what I mean by "No Dice". It is my preferred kind of roleplaying; I find that playing with dice makes it easier to control the characters (this is a bad thing) and makes it less real. Any player will pay more attention to the game if they know they have to rely on their own intelligence, not die rolls, to get themselves out of situations.
On top of all this, it's much easier and faster to play/learn to play without dice, and it cannot really be called 'harder'. You have to use your brain to keep your character out of trouble, but is that so hard? Of course not! You evolved with lots of brains. So what kinds of no-dice roleplaying are there for you to choose from? Here's a brief list:

Chat Roleplaying: Roleplaying by sending messages back and forth by chat. This actually could be done with dice, I think, but it would be a bit awkward and it works fine without. This is probably the quickest form of roleplaying, but it can work for all styles. For example, with one of my friends I pretty much play action-style, warrior adventure games and with another I play ones with deep plots, storylines, and very detailed, romantic characters, all on iChat. AIM and other things would work just fine, I'm sure, but since I have an Apple computer I wouldn't know.
Real-Life Roleplaying: Usually only played with, say, an annoying little sister/brother. Real-Life would be actually acting out what your characters are doing/saying/ect. This can get tiring and a little dangerous if your characters have swords...
In Person No-Dice Roleplaying: The No-Dice equivalent of sitting around a table and playing Dungeons and Dragons with your friend(s). Everyone makes character sheets if they want (I use custom-made ones that list the characters race, age, gender, name, level, mana, weapons, armor, horse, ect. I include 'level' because I find it's useful and easier to keep track of how strong characters are when you can assign a certain level to them.). The Game Master puts the characters in a certain setting and the players speak their parts out loud. Sometimes the Game Master or the players may use sheets of paper to scribble out maps of areas and stuff.
Message Board Roleplaying: One of the little-known kinds of roleplaying, and where I got my start by sheer coincidence. Message Board roleplaying, or MBRPing, is done by posting back and forth on message boards like boards2go. There are many styles of roleplaying on message boards; the style you use depends on which RPG you roleplay on and what your personal style is. There is a massive Newbie-dom in MBRPing, unfortunately. People with two-word posts. People who just don't put any effort into roleplaying well. It hurts me to see those people, really it does. There are the elite roleplayers, of course, who's posts tend to be 1000+ words EACH. And they post several times every day. That's enough to write about eight pages. Um, wow? I'm right about in the middle of those two categories, though I do lean towards the elite. (My highest word count was something like 1400, I believe, and my average post is 200-700 words long, depending on what I have to reply to.)
There are, of course, many other ways to roleplay without dice, and I can't claim to be an expert on all of them. But I will put in articles about what I DO know.

Message Board Roleplaying.