Live-action role playing was associated with games like Dungeons & Dragons. Now, it’s a way to call someone out for being inauthentic.

By Steven Dashiell Tabletop role playing games (TRPGs) have been around for over a half century but have experienced something of a renaissance in the twenty-first century, with new generations of …

The International Journal of Role-playing is a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal that examines all facets of role-playing games for an audience of academics, designers, and players. The journal emphasizes analog role-playing games such as tabletop, live action role-playing (larp), and freeform, but is open to submissions analyzing adjacent phenomena and other interdisciplinary topics in relation to role-playing game studies.

This research interrogates the subset of fandom called OSR, or Old School Renaissance, and its relation to the diversity in Dungeons & Dragons communities. Some who populate OSR are hostile to cha...

Military recruitment techniques traditionally focus on warriorship and patriotism, but with waning participation other techniques are being used (e.g. targeting parents Christensen, W. M. 2016a. Th...

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“If situations are defined as real, then they are real in their consequence.”

“If situations are defined as real, then they are real in their consequence.”

In Episode LXXIV has Mandi and Suzanne chat about Gamefound acquiring Indiegogo and review Wizards and Co, Ofrenda, Digsaw, and Courtisans. Dr. Steven Dashiell joins for a You're The Expert segment be...

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