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Flow And Fantasy: An Exploration Of Role-Playing Games, Andrew Roy
Flow And Fantasy: An Exploration Of Role-Playing Games, Andrew Roy
Honors Papers
This chapter lays out the conceptual foundation that one must possess in order to examine the role-playing game phenomenon. First. I will present what has been done in the scholarly community on rpgs . This section will also serve as a justification for this study. In the second section, I will examine the games themselves , explaining their form and history to the reader.
Considering the massive popular impact that roleplaying games have had over the last two decades , there is remarkably little scholarship on them . Scanning across anthropological and sociological literature, one can find almost nothing that …