Narrative and Collaborative World Building in Tabletop Role-Playing Games.
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- February 28, 2019
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Royce, Jenni
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- This study examines the interaction between narrative and collaborative worldbuilding and premade, extensive rulesets in tabletop role-playing games. This study specifically looks at the game Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition and included interviews with six participants on how they balanced the collaborative narrative environment and expressing creativity while working within a system with extensive rules and guidelines for how the game functions.While participants did acknowledge that the rules were important, the rules themselves function more as paratexts, or guidelines. They functioned to create a consistent, understandable environment within which to create a narrative, but participants recognized that if these guidelines hamper the enjoyment or flow of the game and story they could be changed or ignored for the players’ benefit. Furthermore, players were more likely to break the rules or allow others to do so if there was a creative and interesting narrative purpose, as it was important to allow all players to have agency and input in the narrative and to ensure that the story itself was enjoyable for all involved.
- Date of publication
- April 2018
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- Sturm, Brian
- Degree
- Master of Science in Library Science
- Academic concentration
- Library and Information Science
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2018
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- 98007f4e-4b3f-4f51-afc8-9b47dcd19b71
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