Tag: role-playing game
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From an imaginary world into the classroom. What is the benefit of roleplaying games in education?
Rolling dice and calculating distances that are required to plunge and arrow into a well poisoning madmen isn’t something people would expect happening in a formal education setting. However, a study shows that incorporating play behavior into curriculum has notable, yet understudied benefits in classrooms. #roleplayinggames #education #gameresearch
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Drawing your map to victory – A Cartographers review
A casual yet unique take on role-playing boardgame of an uncharted territory.
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Moving From Gratuitous Violence To Diplomacy
Could games be used as systems for a more ethical narrative instead of always opting for violence?
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Lunar Sims with Slavery and Misogyny: a review of Kenshi
A vast single-player experience, letting you explore, survive and fight with one or many characters under your control.
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Sworn by Ghostlight – Detective stories under the pale moonlight
The solo-tabletop roleplaying game Sworn by Ghostlight is a great tool for horror storytelling that, depending on your preferences, might leave you wanting for deeper depth of mechanical or descriptional variety.
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Heroes´ Feast – Bringing food to the gaming table
Even if you don´t happen to be a 6th-level cleric or a druid, you can create some adventurously flavored meals with the help of the official dungeons and dragons cookbook, Heroes´ Feast.
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Performing and Pretending for The Audience of One: Role-Playing in Single-Player Games
What are the affordances and restrictions the digital single-player role-playing games impose on the gamer? The study explores the different ways the player can use the game as a complex toy with multiple affordances to play pretend with.
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A game master’s reflection
Given unlimited time, I might eventually run a well-planned Dungeons and Dragons RPG session.
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Deceivers, seducers, mothers – Female monstrosity in Dungeons & Dragons
The Monster Manual represents women through misogynistic tropes, following in the footsteps of medieval bestiaries. Combining statistics with descriptions of monsters creates a new game mechanic, the ludic bestiary.
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Bang! – Authentic Wild West Adventure
In the fast-playing card interaction game Bang!, you take a part in an authentic Old West combat. Will you manage to accomplish your role’s task and, most importantly, survive the wild gunfight?
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Review: Starfinder
Starfinder serves up high fantasy adventure in the stars. #starfinder #review #rpg
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Praedor – Elegantly Brutal
Praedor is sixteen years old, and the old warhorse still has untold stories left in it. #praedor #rpg #burgergames