history of RPGs: Made by fans; played by fans

2012/09/15 by Paul Mason · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Digital Games and Media #Digital Humanities and Scholarship

paper · doi:10.3983/twc.2012.0444

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Abstract

I explore some aspects of the early history of tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) that are perhaps not well known among media scholars, and which offer an alternative take on the idea of fan activity.

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