Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds by Nicholas J. Mizer

Author:Nicholas J. Mizer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030291273
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

These rules of interaction, explicitly set up as safeguards for players’ narrative agency (Cover 2010), translate fairly closely into the norms of tabletop role-playing games.

Perhaps more influential even than the social norms, the presentation of space in MUDs continues to shape how Liz interacts with and presents fictional worlds. Eventually she would go on to start her own MUDs, taking on a variant of the DMing role she had already pursued with neighborhood friends:So I would spend long summers just writing worlds, you know. I’d have like a giant graph paper map on my wall of all the nodes and how they were connected … And then I’d sit there and type two-paragraph descriptions for every single room in, like, a two-hundred room world. And when you’re writing two hundred descriptions of a forest and trying to make them all unique, you develop a very good vocabulary [laughs] pretty quickly. I’ve lost a lot of it over the years, but that’s definitely—I still go back to, like, thinking about writing a description for a room on a MUD whenever I describe a scene.

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