The Role Playing Society

Author : Andrew Byers,Francesco Crocco
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476623481

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The Role-Playing Society by Andrew Byers,Francesco Crocco Pdf

Since the release of Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, role-playing games (RPGs) have spawned a vibrant industry and subculture whose characteristics and player experiences have been well explored. Yet little attention has been devoted to the ways RPGs have shaped society at large over the last four decades. Role-playing games influenced video game design, have been widely represented in film, television and other media, and have made their mark on education, social media, corporate training and the military. This collection of new essays illustrates the broad appeal and impact of RPGs. Topics range from a critical reexamination of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, to the growing significance of RPGs in education, to the potential for "serious" RPGs to provoke awareness and social change. The contributors discuss the myriad subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways in which the values, concepts and mechanics of RPGs have infiltrated popular culture.

Author : Vee Hendro,Hayley Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648150526

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Good Society by Vee Hendro,Hayley Gordon Pdf

Good Society is a tabletop roleplaying game where you create an Austen novel with your friends.

Author : Andrew Byers,Francesco Crocco
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786498833

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The Role-Playing Society by Andrew Byers,Francesco Crocco Pdf

Since the release of Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, role-playing games (RPGs) have spawned a vibrant industry and subculture whose characteristics and player experiences have been well explored. Yet little attention has been devoted to the ways RPGs have shaped society at large over the last four decades. Role-playing games influenced video game design, have been widely represented in film, television and other media, and have made their mark on education, social media, corporate training and the military. This collection of new essays illustrates the broad appeal and impact of RPGs. Topics range from a critical reexamination of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, to the growing significance of RPGs in education, to the potential for "serious" RPGs to provoke awareness and social change. The contributors discuss the myriad subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways in which the values, concepts and mechanics of RPGs have infiltrated popular culture.

Author : René Reinhold Schallegger
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476631462

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The Postmodern Joy of Role-Playing Games by René Reinhold Schallegger Pdf

Historian Johan Huizinga once described game playing as the motor of humanity’s cultural development, predating art and literature. Since the late 20th century, Western society has undergone a “ludification,” as the influence of game-playing has grown ever more prevalent. At the same time, new theories of postmodernism have emphasized the importance of interactive, playful behavior. Core concepts of postmodernism are evident in pen-and-paper role-playing, such as Dungeons and Dragons. Exploring the interrelationships among narrative, gameplay, players and society, the author raises questions regarding authority, agency and responsibility, and discusses the social potential of RPGs in the 21st century.

Author : Sarah Lynne Bowman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786455553

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The Functions of Role-Playing Games by Sarah Lynne Bowman Pdf

This study takes an analytical approach to the world of role-playing games, providing a theoretical framework for understanding their psychological and sociological functions. Sometimes dismissed as escapist and potentially dangerous, role-playing actually encourages creativity, self-awareness, group cohesion and "out-of-the-box" thinking. The book also offers a detailed participant-observer ethnography on role-playing games, featuring insightful interviews with 19 participants of table-top, live action and virtual games.

Author : Sami Jo Small
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781773056098

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The Role I Played by Sami Jo Small Pdf

Three-time Olympic medalist shares behind-the-scenes insight into the beloved Canadian National Women’s Hockey Team Men’s hockey in Canada may hog the limelight, but interest in women’s hockey has never been higher. The Role I Played is a memoir of Sami Jo Small’s ten years with Canada’s National Women’s Hockey Team. Beginning with her experience as a rookie at the first-ever women’s Olympic hockey tournament in Nagano in 1998 and culminating with Canada’s third straight Olympic gold medal in Vancouver in 2010, the veteran goaltender gives the reader behind-the-scenes insight into one of the most successful teams in sports history. Small offers insider access, writing with unflinching honesty about the triumphs of her greatest games and the anguish of difficult times. This book honours the individuals who sacrificed so much of their lives to represent Canada on a world stage and celebrates their individual contributions to the team’s glory. While bringing the personalities of her teammates to life, Small takes the reader into the dressing rooms and onto the ice for an up-close glimpse into the ups and downs of athletes pursuing a sport’s highest achievement.

Author : Abadir M. Ibrahim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319183831

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The Role of Civil Society in Africa’s Quest for Democratization by Abadir M. Ibrahim Pdf

This book tests many of the assumptions, hypotheses, and conclusions connected with the presumed role of civil society organizations in the democratization of African countries. Taking a comparative approach, it looks at countries that have successfully democratized, those that are stuck between progress and regression, those that have regressed into dictatorship, and those that are currently in transitional flux and evaluates what role, if any, civil society has played in each instance. The countries discussed—South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt and Tunisia—represent a diverse set of social and political circumstances and different levels of democratic achievement, providing a rich set of case studies. Each sample state also offers an internal comparison, as each has historically experienced different stages of democratization. Along the course of each case study, the book also considers the effect that other traditionally studied factors, such as culture, colonization, economic development and foreign aid, may have had on individual attempts at democratization. The first extensive work on civil society and democratization in Africa, the book adds new insights to the applicability of democratization theory in a non-Western context, both filling a gap in and adding to the existing universal scholarship. This book will be useful for scholars of political science, economics, sociology and African studies, as well as human rights activists and policy makers in the relevant geographical areas.

Author : Gerald A. Voorhees,Joshua Call,Katie Whitlock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441141088

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Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens by Gerald A. Voorhees,Joshua Call,Katie Whitlock Pdf

Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens is a collection of scholarly essays that seeks to represent the far-reaching scope and implications of digital role-playing games as both cultural and academic artifacts. As a genre, digital role playing games have undergone constant and radical revision, pushing not only multiple boundaries of game development, but also the playing strategies and experiences of players. Divided into three distinct sections, this premiere volume captures the distinctiveness of different game types, the forms of play they engender and their social and cultural implications. Contributors examine a range of games, from classics like Final Fantasy to blockbusters like World of Warcraft to obscure genre bending titles like Lux Pain. Working from a broad range of disciplines such as ecocritism, rhetoric, performance, gender, and communication, these essays yield insights that enrich the field of game studies and further illuminate the cultural, psychological and philosophical implications of a society that increasingly produces, plays and discourses about role playing games.

Author : Michal Mochocki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000367652

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Role-play as a Heritage Practice by Michal Mochocki Pdf

Role-play as a Heritage Practice is the first book to examine physically performed role-enactments, such as live-action role-play (LARP), tabletop role-playing games (TRPG), and hobbyist historical reenactment (RH), from a combined game studies and heritage studies perspective. Demonstrating that non-digital role-plays, such as TRPG and LARP, share many features with RH, the book contends that all three may be considered as heritage practices. Studying these role-plays as three distinct genres of playful, participatory and performative forms of engagement with cultural heritage, Mochocki demonstrates how an exploration of the affordances of each genre can be valuable. Showing that a player’s engagement with history or heritage material is always multi-layered, the book clarifies that the layers may be conceptualised simultaneously as types of heritage authenticity and as types of in-game immersion. It is also made clear that RH, TRPG and LARP share commonalities with a multitude of other media, including video games, historical fiction and film. Existing within, and contributing to, the fiction and non-fiction mediasphere, these role-enactments are shaped by the same large-scale narratives and discourses that persons, families, communities, and nations use to build memory and identity. Role-play as a Heritage Practice will be of great interest to academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, memory, nostalgia, role-playing, historical games, performance, fans and transmedia narratology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952885086

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Root: the Roleplaying Game by Anonim Pdf

Author : Evan Torner,Aaron Trammell,Emma Leigh Waldron
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780359383979

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Analog Game Studies: Volume III by Evan Torner,Aaron Trammell,Emma Leigh Waldron Pdf

Analog Game Studies is a bi-monthy journal for the research and critique of analog games. We define analog games broadly and include work on tabletop and live-action role-playing games, board games, card games, pervasive games, game-like performances, carnival games, experimental games, and more. Analog Game Studies was founded to reserve a space for scholarship on analog games in the wider field of game studies.

Author : Gary Alan Fine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780226249445

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Shared Fantasy by Gary Alan Fine Pdf

This classic study still provides one of the most acute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the patterns of interaction among players—as well as their reasons for playing.

Author : Daniel Mackay
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786450473

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The Fantasy Role-Playing Game by Daniel Mackay Pdf

Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned elements, rarely focus on them. Instead, playing a fantasy role-playing game is much like acting out a scene from a play, movie or book, only without a predefined script. Players take on such roles as wise wizards, noble knights, roguish sellswords, crafty hobbits, greedy dwarves, and anything else one can imagine and the referee allows. The players don't exactly compete; instead, they interact with each other and with the fantasy setting. The game is played orally with no game board, and although the referee usually has a storyline planned for a game, much of the action is impromptu. Performance is a major part of role-playing, and role-playing games as a performing art is the subject of this book, which attempts to introduce an appreciation for the performance aesthetics of such games. The author provides the framework for a critical model useful in understanding the art--especially in terms of aesthetics--of role-playing games. The book also serves as a contribution to the beginnings of a body of criticism, theory, and aesthetics analysis of a mostly unrecognized and newly developing art form. There are four parts: the cultural structure, the extent to which the game relates to outside cultural elements; the formal structure, or the rules of the game; the social structure, which encompasses the degree and quality of social interaction among players; and the aesthetic structure, concerned with the emergence of role-playing as an art form.

Author : Ryan Rogers
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498513081

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How Video Games Impact Players by Ryan Rogers Pdf

How Video Games Impact Players provides a balanced and nuanced look at the complex role that video games play in society through an analysis of the positive and negative effects of game rules, feedback, and self-presentation. Rogers examines the positive aspects of video games like their use in education, encouragement of prosocial behaviors, and enablement of mood management, as well as the negative aspects like their association with violence and diversity issues, promotion of substance use behaviors, and their role as an outlet for harassment behaviors.

Author : C.N. Constantin,Jason Cable Hall
Publisher : Chris Constantin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780994005502

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Dark Revelation - The Role Playing Game - Player's Guide by C.N. Constantin,Jason Cable Hall Pdf

The Hodgepocalypse takes North America and the d20 system and makes it a diverse world filed with magical rites, modern technology and bizarre cultures.