The Role Playing Game Primer


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The Role Playing Game Primer


The Role Playing Game Primer
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Author : Chris Gonnerman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-10-08

The Role Playing Game Primer written by Chris Gonnerman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-08 with categories.


Are you interested in classic paper-and-pencil role-playing games, but you have no idea where to start? This is the book for you! The Role-Playing Game Primer starts from the very beginning, first showing you how to play, then giving you hints and tips on how to do it better. Later chapters provide guidance for beginning Game Masters, to get you up and running even if you have little or no experience as a player. The RPG Primer is aimed at players and GMs of "Old School" paper-and-pencil role-playing games and their modern "retro-clones." It features several of the earliest and best known of the Old School Renaissance games, including Basic Fantasy RPG (by the same author), OSRIC, Labyrinth Lord, and Swords & Wizardry.



Role Playing Game Studies


Role Playing Game Studies
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Author : Sebastian Deterding
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-17

Role Playing Game Studies written by Sebastian Deterding and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Games & Activities categories.


This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively multiplayer online RPG franchises, like Fallout and World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on RPGs from key disciplines, like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from RPG studies around broadly significant topics, like transmedia worldbuilding, immersion, transgressive play, or player–character relations. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help fans, students, and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this new interdisciplinary field.



The Fantasy Role Playing Game


The Fantasy Role Playing Game
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Author : Daniel Mackay
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-08-11

The Fantasy Role Playing Game written by Daniel Mackay and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-11 with Games & Activities categories.


Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned elements, rarely focus on them. Instead, playing a fantasy role-playing game is much like acting out a scene from a play, movie or book, only without a predefined script. Players take on such roles as wise wizards, noble knights, roguish sellswords, crafty hobbits, greedy dwarves, and anything else one can imagine and the referee allows. The players don't exactly compete; instead, they interact with each other and with the fantasy setting. The game is played orally with no game board, and although the referee usually has a storyline planned for a game, much of the action is impromptu. Performance is a major part of role-playing, and role-playing games as a performing art is the subject of this book, which attempts to introduce an appreciation for the performance aesthetics of such games. The author provides the framework for a critical model useful in understanding the art--especially in terms of aesthetics--of role-playing games. The book also serves as a contribution to the beginnings of a body of criticism, theory, and aesthetics analysis of a mostly unrecognized and newly developing art form. There are four parts: the cultural structure, the extent to which the game relates to outside cultural elements; the formal structure, or the rules of the game; the social structure, which encompasses the degree and quality of social interaction among players; and the aesthetic structure, concerned with the emergence of role-playing as an art form.



Fundamentals Of Role Playing Game Design


Fundamentals Of Role Playing Game Design
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Author : Ernest Adams
language : en
Publisher: New Riders
Release Date : 2014-03-25

Fundamentals Of Role Playing Game Design written by Ernest Adams and has been published by New Riders this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with Computers categories.


You understand the basic concepts of game design: gameplay, user interfaces, core mechanics, character design, and storytelling. Now you want to know how to apply them to the role-playing game genre. This focused guide gives you exactly what you need. It walks you through the process of designing for the role-playing game genre and shows you how to use the right techniques to create fun and challenging experiences for your players.



The Creation Of Narrative In Tabletop Role Playing Games


The Creation Of Narrative In Tabletop Role Playing Games
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Author : Jennifer Grouling Cover
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10

The Creation Of Narrative In Tabletop Role Playing Games written by Jennifer Grouling Cover and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Games & Activities categories.


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.



Basic Fantasy Role Playing Game


Basic Fantasy Role Playing Game
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Author : Chris Gonnerman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-02-13

Basic Fantasy Role Playing Game written by Chris Gonnerman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-13 with Games categories.


This is the SECOND EDITION of the Basic Fantasy RPG Core Rules, and thus NOT the current version! Please look for the book titled "Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game 3rd Edition" to get the current game rules! The Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game is a rules-light game system based on the d20 SRD v3.5, but heavily rewritten with inspiration from early RPG game systems. It is suitable for those who are fans of "old-school" game mechanics, and it's simple enough for children in perhaps second or third grade to play, yet still having enough depth for adults as well.



The Evolution Of Fantasy Role Playing Games


The Evolution Of Fantasy Role Playing Games
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Author : Michael J. Tresca
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10

The Evolution Of Fantasy Role Playing Games written by Michael J. Tresca and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Games & Activities categories.


Tracing the evolution of fantasy gaming from its origins in tabletop war and collectible card games to contemporary web-based live action and massive multi-player games, this book examines the archetypes and concepts within the fantasy gaming genre alongside the roles and functions of the game players themselves. Other topics include: how The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings helped shape fantasy gaming through Tolkien’s obsessive attention to detail and virtual world building; the community-based fellowship embraced by players of both play-by-post and persistent browser-based games, despite the fact that these games are fundamentally solo experiences; the origins of gamebooks and interactive fiction; and the evolution of online gaming in terms of technological capabilities, media richness, narrative structure, coding authority, and participant roles.



Seeker The Role Playing Game


Seeker The Role Playing Game
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Second Person


Second Person
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Author : Pat Harrigan
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2010-01-22

Second Person written by Pat Harrigan and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-22 with Social Science categories.


Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other "playable media." Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater, involve role playing and story—something played and something told. In Second Person, game designers, authors, artists, and scholars examine the different ways in which these two elements work together in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs), computer games, board games, card games, electronic literature, political simulations, locative media, massively multiplayer games, and other forms that invite and structure play. Second Person—so called because in these games and playable media it is "you" who plays the roles, "you" for whom the story is being told—first considers tabletop games ranging from Dungeons & Dragons and other RPGs with an explicit social component to Kim Newman's Choose Your Own Adventure-style novel Life's Lottery and its more traditional author-reader interaction. Contributors then examine computer-based playable structures that are designed for solo interaction—for the singular "you"—including the mainstream hit Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and the genre-defining independent production Façade. Finally, contributors look at the intersection of the social spaces of play and the real world, considering, among other topics, the virtual communities of such Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) as World of Warcraft and the political uses of digital gaming and role-playing techniques (as in The Howard Dean for Iowa Game, the first U.S. presidential campaign game). In engaging essays that range in tone from the informal to the technical, these writers offer a variety of approaches for the examination of an emerging field that includes works as diverse as George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards series and the classic Infocom game Planetfall. Appendixes contain three fully-playable tabletop RPGs that demonstrate some of the variations possible in the form.



The Ultimate Rpg Gameplay Guide


The Ultimate Rpg Gameplay Guide
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Author : James D’Amato
language : en
Publisher: Adams Media
Release Date : 2019-10-08

The Ultimate Rpg Gameplay Guide written by James D’Amato and has been published by Adams Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Games & Activities categories.


Improve your RPG campaign with this comprehensive and interactive guide to making the most out of your gaming experience. Whatever RPG game you play, from D&D to Call of Cthulu to licensed games like Star Wars, every detail is important. From setting the scene to choosing the right music or even adjusting the lighting to create the right atmosphere, every choice helps maximize your gaming experience. The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide provides practical advice for everything from pre-game preparations and in-game improvisation to working out a plan of attack with your teammates to learning how to lean into the setting of your game. Including instructions, prompts, and activities, it offers everything you need for successful, fun role-playing with your friends every time you play. Create hours of narrative and make the most out of your storytelling skills by setting the perfect scene for your adventure. Whether you need advice on your character or working better with your gaming group, James D’Amato includes everything you’ll need to take your game to the next level.