Fantasy games

Overview "ALIEN: DESOLATION is a transmedia exercise exploring the potential for tabletop role-playing games to craft unique, open-ended stories where the events within depend on coordination between player and "Game Master." The project takes two forms: a written and laid out set of three "adventures," and an audio drama in five parts. The events of four of the episodes of the audio drama are either recordings of "actual play" of the related adventure, or a scripted re-envsioning of the events of...

Overview "This paper is a master's project for a Master's in Fine Arts in Theatre Education. This project seeks to use tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) as an alternative mode of instruction for teachers. The author sought to provide an understanding and justification for the use of TTRPGs in the classroom as a viable means for curriculum design as well as a guide for educators to pursue designing their own game-aided curriculums. Also provided is a concrete example of a game-based curriculum...