Jennifer Grouling Cover

Creation of Narrative in Tabletop Role-Playing Games

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Produktbeschreibung

Despite the rise of computer gaming, millions of adults still play face to face role playing games, which rely in part on social interaction to create stories. This work explores tabletop role playing game (TRPG) as a genre separate from computer role playing games. The relationship of TRPGs to other games is examined, as well as the interaction among the tabletop module, computer game, and novel versions of Dungeons & Dragons. Given particular attention are the narrative and linguistic structures of the gaming session, and the ways that players and gamemasters work together to construct narratives. The text also explores wider cultural influences that surround tabletop gamers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780786444519
• ISBN-10: 0786444517
• Artikelnr.: 28179752

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Grouling Cover is a Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric and writing at Virginia Tech. She teaches writing and lives in Muncie, Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Abbreviations, Terms, and Transcription Symbols     
Preface and Acknowledgments     
Introduction: Defining the Tabletop Role-Playing Game     
1. Early Models of Interactive Narrative     
2. Role-Playing Game Genres     
3. A Transmedia Tale-The Temple of Elemental Evil     
4. The Reconciliation of Narrative and Game     
5. Frames of Narrativity in the TRPG     
6. Immersion in the TRPG     
7. Levels of Authorship-How Gamers Interact with Texts and Create Their
Own     
8. The Culture of TRPG Fans     
9. Conclusions, Definitions, Implications, and Limitations     
Appendix: The Orc Adventure at Blaze Arrow     
Chapter Notes     
References     
Index