Degree Year
1994
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Anthropology
Advisor(s)
Jack Glazier
Keywords
Role-play, Games
Abstract
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 explicitly concerns this genre of play. With rare exceptions, the recent literature is still primarily dedicated to children's play, traditional games, and general theory.
Repository Citation
Roy, Andrew, "Flow and Fantasy: An Exploration of Role-Playing Games" (1994). Honors Papers. 550.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/550
