eprintid: 29454
rev_number: 23
eprint_status: archive
userid: 5758
dir: disk0/00/02/94/54
datestamp: 2021-03-05 13:21:19
lastmod: 2021-03-17 08:44:50
status_changed: 2021-03-05 13:21:19
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Jara Soto, David
title: Framing Strategies in Role-Playing Games. 'My Pleasure': Toward a Poetics of Framing in Tabletop Role-playing Games
subjects: ddc-100
subjects: ddc-150
subjects: ddc-300
subjects: ddc-700
subjects: ddc-792
subjects: ddc-793
subjects: ddc-800
divisions: i-90200
adv_faculty: af-09
keywords: Framing, tabletop role-play, dungeons & dragons, white wolf, fiasco, analog games
cterms_swd: Rollenspiel
cterms_swd: Spielwissenschaft
cterms_swd: Paratext
cterms_swd: Fiktionalität
cterms_swd: Das Dichterische
cterms_swd: Hypertext
abstract: The dissertation discusses the use and impact of “literary” framing (as by Werner Wolf) in generating and negotiating fictional spaces, narratives and meanings within the medium of tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs). In a second step, the text describes some of the specific and most salient framing features and strategies used by players during game sessions. By analyzing these through actual gameplay it is possible to identify the ‘transceptional’ border (Bunia) between reality and fiction to be the constitutive moment of role-play where players are both aware of, and immersed in, the fiction they collaboratively construct. Finally, the dissertation adapts Wolf’s theoretical framework in order to discuss and analyze the often overlooked category of “storytelling” TRPGs - one that, as the text argues, rather than focusing on narrative as such, aims at creating gameplay texts with heightened aesthetic and literary value while also enabling players to experience particular forms of immersion and deep emotional involvement. In the conclusion, the dissertation proposes re-conceptualizing literary framing as a defining characteristic of the fictional practice in general across media. In this regard, the dissertation argues, TRPGs reveal how framings are used and adapted in order to enable a specific mode of human interaction which is based on the figuration of emotional complexes via fictional “masks.”
date: 2021
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00029454
ppn_swb: 1751589102
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-294548
date_accepted: 2019-07-30
advisor: HASH(0x558eaa80a1e8)
language: eng
bibsort: JARASOTODAFRAMINGSTR2021
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Jara Soto, David  (2021) Framing Strategies in Role-Playing Games. 'My Pleasure': Toward a Poetics of Framing in Tabletop Role-playing Games.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/29454/7/David_Jara_Dissertation_2021.pdf