Watch Us Roll: Essays on Actual Play and Performance in Tabletop Role-Playing Games eBook

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Actual play is a movement within role-playing gaming in which players livestream their gameplay for others to watch and enjoy. This new medium has allowed the playing of games to become a digestible, consumable text for individuals to watch, enjoy, learn from, and analyze. Bridging the gap between the analog and the digital, actual play is changing and challenging our expectations of tabletop role-playing and providing a space for new scholarship. This edited collection of essays focuses on Dungeons and Dragons actual play and examines this phenomenon from a variety of different disciplinary approaches. Authors explore how to define actual play, how fans interact with and affect the narrative and gameplay of actual play, the diversity of gamers (or lack thereof) within actual play media, and how audiences can use actual play media for more than mere entertainment.

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Watch Us Roll: Essays on Actual Play and Performance in Tabletop Role-Playing Games and published by McFarland. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Watch Us Roll are 9781476643434, 1476643431 and the print ISBNs are 9781476677620, 147667762X.