Beyond Role and Play - tools, toys and theory for harnessing the imagination

Markus Montola, Jaako Stenros

Ropecon ry

2004

321 páginas

10h 42m

ISBN-10: 952916842X

Beyond Role and Play - Tools, Toys and Theory for Harnessing the Imagination is a collection of articles by researchers and role-playing game enthusiasts from seven countries. This book offers practical tools, analytical viewpoints, inspirational game reviews and fresh methodological ideas for all who take role-playing seriously. The book covers both tabletop and live-action role-playing as an artform, a political tool, an educational method and as great entertainment.
The THEORY section consists of articles that are mostly of interest to researchers, PRACTICE includes tried and true tools for both game designers and players. GAMES holds descriptive reviews of completed project and analyses of a number of Nordic larps, and finally OPENINGS provokes with radical new ideas that are of equal interest to both researchers and game masters.

"[E]xtra effort must be taken to underline the significance of larp and role-playing - as art, as popular culture, as something that not only the small core group of the initiated, but a much wider audience can learn and profit from. This is an important book, indeed."
Frans Mäyrä, in his Foreword.
Solmukohta 04
Ropecon ry
ISBN 952-91-6842-X (paperback)
ISBN 952-91-6843-8 (pdf)