Introduction to Tabletop Role-playing Games -- Sarah Lynne Bowman

This lecture by Sarah Lynne Bowman gives a brief introduction to tabletop role-playing games (RPGs), discussing their similarities to childhood pretend play, board games, card games, and simulation. The lecture discusses the origins of the first official tabletop RPG, Dungeons & Dragons, as well as its basic structure. It discusses other traditional RPGs such as Call of Cthulhu and World of Darkness games, then transitions to discuss indie RPGs such as Fiasco, Apocalypse World, and Itras By among others. Content note: The comment about Gary Gygax participating in an impov troupe is not yet verified. This talk is part one (1) of four (4) in the series Introduction to Transformative Analog Role-playing Games. The series also includes: "Introduction to Live Action Role-playing Games (Larp)" -- Sarah Lynne Bowman:    • Introduction to Live Action Role-playing G...   "Introduction to Transformative Game Design" -- Sarah Lynne Bowman:    • Introduction to Transformative Game Design...   "Transformative Game Design: A Theoretical Framework" -- Sarah Lynne Bowman:    • Transformative Game Design: A Theoretical ...   This video is part of the course Introduction to Transformative Game Design, an online course with open registration for anyone with a Bachelor's degree and English proficiency. This course is taught at the Department of Game Design at Uppsala University. Bio: Sarah Lynne Bowman, Ph.D. is a scholar, game designer, and event organizer. She is an Associate Professor for the Department of Game Design at Uppsala University Campus Gotland and the Coordinator for Peace & Conflict Studies at Austin Community College. McFarland Press published her dissertation as The Functions of Role-playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems, and Explore Identity (2010). Bowman has edited for The Wyrd Con Companion Book (2012-2015), the International Journal of Role-playing (2016-), and Nordiclarp.org (2015-). She helped organize the Living Games Conference (2014, 2016, 2018) and Role-playing and Simulation in Education Conference (2016, 2018). * * The Transformative Play Initiative is part of the Games & Society Lab at the Department of Game Design, Uppsala University Campus Gotland. The Initiative explores the use of analog role-playing games as vehicles for lasting personal and social change. Learn more about Transformative Play at Uppsala and join the TPI mailing list: https://www.speldesign.uu.se/research... Learn more about the Games & Society Lab at the Department of Game Design: https://www.speldesign.uu.se/research... Like Transformative Play Initiative on FB:   / transformativeplay   Like the Games and Society Lab on FB:   / gamesandsocietylab   Editing by Liliia Chorna. Music by Elias Faltin. Captions by Kjell Hedgard Hugaas.