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Original Research Article

No. 3 (2022): The Master with a Thousand Faces: Game Mastering, Organizing, Plotting, and Running Analog Role-Playing Games

What it Means to Create Player Characters for Tabletop Role-Playing Games: Focusing on Setting a Character's Gender and History (Japanese only)

Submitted
April 30, 2022
Published
2022-09-30

Abstract

Tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) allow players to freely create their own player characters. We conducted an exploratory study of the significance of this fact for players through two studies: An interview survey and field observations. As a result, we found that players create player characters of different genders from their own, becoming different from their usual selves. They create a TRPG community that includes not only the players but also their player characters, which supports the role-playing. The fact that the findings of this study were obtained from a very limited community is a limitation of this study.

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