Role-play as a Heritage Practice: Historical Larp, Tabletop RPG and Reenactment

ISBN-13: 9780367673499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 292 str.

Michal Mochocki

Opis

Role-play as a Heritage Practice is the first book to examine physically performed role-enactments, such as live-action role-play (LARP), tabletop role-playing games (TRPG), and hobbyist historical reenactment (RH), from a combined game studies and heritage studies perspective.

 

Spis treści

Introduction: Heritage and Role-Playing;  1. Heritage Authenticity Meets Game Immersion;  2. Immersion, Authenticity, and Implicit Fandoms in Site/Event Visitation;  3. RH+TRPG+LARP: Prototypical Models and First-Person Audience;  4. RH+TRPG+LARP as Narrative Media;  5. Performative Representation of Heritage;  6. Processual Enactment of RH+TRPG+LARP Storyworlds;  7. Immersion/Involvement in Activity and Environment;  8. Immersion/Involvement in Character and Game;  9. Narrative Immersion/Involvement and Authorised Heritage Discourse;  10. Community Immersion/Involvement and Dissonant Heritages

O autorze

Michał Mochocki, PhD, works as Assistant Professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His research interests focus on non-digital and digital role-playing games, which he approaches from the angles of narratology and heritage studies. In addition to academic research, his knowledge of historical role-enactments comes from first-hand experience as reenactor, educator, RPG writer and designer. He is a member of Games Research Association of Poland, Digital Game Research Assocation, and International Game Developers Association.