The friends that game together: A folkloric expansion of textual poaching to genre farming for socialization in tabletop role-playing games

Tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) are a folkloric form for creating and reaffirming community bonds and performing identity. Gaming is used to communicate and perform cultural capital and identity through fictional narratives, functioning as a form of community building and/or personal expression....

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Main Author: Michael Robert Underwood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Organization for Transformative Works 2009-03-01
Series:Transformative Works and Cultures
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Online Access:http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/87/90