Playing with Autonomy: Tabletop Role-Playing Games as Written, Played, and Spectated

我的项目研究桌面角色扮演游戏（如《龙与地下城》）的规则集如何传播新自由主义和新殖民主义的权力叙事，以及游戏系统的意识形态偏见如何在游戏过程中被颠覆或“入侵”。一方面，trpg的系统是为特定的叙述量身定制的；游戏规则决定了如何解决叙述的不确定性，而其系统所采取的叙述行动则揭示了特定游戏认为重要的故事类型。

My project examines how the rulesets of tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) transmit neoliberal and neocolonial narratives of power and how the ideological biases of game systems can be subverted or 'hacked' during play. On the one hand, TRPGs' systems are tailored towards certain narratives; a game's rules determine how narrative uncertainty is resolved, and the narrative actions its system litigates for reveals what kinds of stories a given game considers important.