Despite the rise of computer gaming, millions of adults still play face to face role playing games, which rely in part on social interaction to create stories.

The Digital Age has created massive technological and disciplinary shifts in tabletop role-playing, increasing the appreciation of games like Dungeons & Dragons

This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible v

Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, inte

Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beat