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Second Person
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Second Person

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-01-22
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other "playable media." Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater, involve role playing and story—something played and something told. In Second Person, game designers, authors, artists, and scholars examine the different ways in which these two elements work together in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs), computer games, board games, card games, electronic literature, political simulations, locative media, massivel...

Nobilis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Nobilis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999-07-01
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  • Publisher: Pharos Books

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Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 387

Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-05-14
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

On the fiftieth anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, a collection of essays that explores and celebrates the game’s legacy and its tremendous impact on gaming and popular culture. In 2024, the enormously influential tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons—also known as D&D—celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. To mark the occasion, editors Premeet Sidhu, Marcus Carter, and José Zagal have assembled an edited collection that celebrates and reflects on important parts of the game’s past, present, and future. Each chapter in Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons explores why the nondigital game is more popular than ever—with sales increasing 33 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, de...

Role-Playing Games of Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Role-Playing Games of Japan

This book engages non-digital role-playing games—such as table-top RPGs and live-action role-plays—in and from Japan, to sketch their possibilities and fluidities in a global context. Currently, non-digital RPGs are experiencing a second boom worldwide and are increasingly gaining scholarly attention for their inter-media relations. This study concentrates on Japan, but does not emphasise unique Japanese characteristics, as the practice of embodying an RPG character is always contingently realised. The purpose is to trace the transcultural entanglements of RPG practices by mapping four arenas of conflict: the tension between reality and fiction; stereotypes of escapism; mediation across national borders; and the role of scholars in the making of role-playing game practices.

Analog Game Studies: Volume I
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Analog Game Studies: Volume I

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-21
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Analog Game Studiesis 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 Studieswas founded to reserve a space for scholarship on analog games in the wider field of game studies."

The Game of Powers
  • Language: en

The Game of Powers

In Nobilis, players take on the roles of the Sovereign Powers, each the personification of one single aspect of reality: night, roads, ecstasy, chains, time, water - whatever the players can conceive of. Once human, each character has been forever changed, imbued with awesome power and terrible responsibility. The Game of Powers expands the worlds and rules of Nobilis, moving play away from the tabletop and into live action.

The Outcaste
  • Language: en

The Outcaste

A setting and character resource for Exalted players and Storytellers. Contains a wealth of new Artifacts and Charms and new details on Dynastic culture.

Hitherby Dragons: Primal Chaos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 64

Hitherby Dragons: Primal Chaos

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

An anthology of short-short fiction and columns, covering such diverse topics as the Dancing Popes and the plight of the Nigerian banker.

Exalted
  • Language: en

Exalted

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Nobilis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Nobilis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-05-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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