<Original Research>What it Means to Create Player Characters for Tabletop Role-Playing Games: Focusing on Setting a Character's Gender and History

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Other Title
  • <研究論文>TRPGでのロールプレイにおいてプレイヤーキャラクターを創作することの意味: キャラクターのジェンダーと歴史についての設定を中心に

Description

Tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) allow players to freely create their own player characters. We conducted an exploratory study of the significance of this fact for players through two studies: An interview survey and field observations. As a result, we found that players create player characters of different genders from their own, becoming different from their usual selves. They create a TRPG community that includes not only the players but also their player characters, which supports the role-playing. The fact that the findings of this study were obtained from a very limited community is a limitation of this study.

Journal

  • RPG学研究

    RPG学研究 3 59-69, 2022-09-30

    Japanese Association for Role-Playing Game Studies

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Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390012158465674624
  • DOI
    10.14989/jarps_3_59
  • ISSN
    24349682
  • HANDLE
    2433/276511
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Article Type
    departmental bulletin paper
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • IRDB
  • Abstract License Flag
    Allowed

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