This chapter explores role-playing from different existing scientific frameworks, including
developmental, cognitive, behavioral, motivational, clinical, and social psychology. It …

Accounts of trans people using role-playing games (RPGs) as a safer space to “try out”
another way to be gen-dered can be found in numerous sites–from the memetic, to the …

This paper presents a case study of designing and running a Larp (live action role play)-
based summer camp in which middle school-age girls create social wearables, toward …

Many psychologists, therapists, and educators have emphasized the practice of play,
especially with enacted roles, as a site for learning and therapeutic growth. This article …

The RPG concept bleed describes the spillover of physical states, mental states, physicality,
values, opinions, and other similar concepts from player to character and vice versa. Over …

Queer experience has, until very recently, been invisible or significantly misrepresented in
cultural and scholarly fields of record including history, sociology, and ethnography. Self …

This article posits that intentional non-formal and informal educational game design can
provide an opportunity for the safer exploration of, and learning about,(trans) gender …

This article examines the creation of queer rhetoric through role-play to find the reparative
value that Dungeons & Dragons (1974-) can potentially provide the queer communities. My …

Background This study explores the emotional experiences of players in online, text-based
tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) and their potential impact on players. The goal is to …

Abstract Just a Little Lovin'(JaLL), a live action role-playing (larp) portraying queer lives in
the face of the HIV/AIDS crisis, provides an example of how a larp might connect participants …