Abstract
This poster will present emerging results from a study of material and discursive information practices in tabletop roleplaying games. The focus will be on the ways in which players collaboratively construct and interact with the fictional worlds of play. A “big and small story” approach, influenced by the ethnomethodological methods of conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis, will be used to analyze the players’ talk as they intersubjectively create and sustain a fictional space of play.
Highlights
Tabletop roleplaying games, such as Dungeons & Dragons, involve collaborative storytelling as a part of gameplay
The research was designed with a “big and small story” approach, where big stories are the types of interaction found in oral history and interview-style research, when narratives of past events are elicited and retold; and small stories are a part of in-the-moment interaction
Players use a variety of techniques to communicate game settings. This poster will focus on the analysis of portions of talk where the game master is introducing the players to the game-world, resuming play, or starting a scene
Summary
Tabletop roleplaying games, such as Dungeons & Dragons, involve collaborative storytelling as a part of gameplay. This poster will present emerging results from a study of information practices in tabletop roleplaying games. There are many aspects that could be considered information behaviours and information seeking as the players create and locate themselves within a fictional space. These behaviours occur in the context of ongoing gameplay, of the in-the-moment interactions of the social and conversational practice of gaming. The focus for this study is on the ways in which players inform one another by talking the world into being during the course of play, and it is influenced by work on discursive approaches to information (e.g., Tuominen & Savolainen 1997)
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