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

我的项目考察了桌面角色扮演游戏(TRPG)(如《地下城与龙》(D&D))的规则集如何传递关于权力的新自由主义和新殖民主义叙事，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“黑客攻击”。一方面，TRPG的系统是为某些叙事量身定做的；游戏规则决定了叙事不确定性是如何解决的，其系统提起诉讼的叙事行动揭示了给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.