Bagpuss
Legend
Hey Original 1st Ed Monster manual pic this course must be good.
And someone remind me Which book this is from?
And someone remind me Which book this is from?
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Ethnography of Online RPGs
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drnuncheon
Explorer
Bagpuss said:
Under the mosaic-ing, it's the Erol Otus cover art of the D&D basic set.
J
Mercule
Adventurer
Even though I'd throw this more into the Sociology camp, as someone with a Political Science degree, I could actually see some interesting studies coming out of this course.
Such things as "what is the most appealing aspect of MMORGs" and "what can we learn and apply to Terran politics" would be quite interesting. Also, there's the whole "Lord of the Flies" aspect which would be intriguing.
Of course, you'd have to filter out both the escapism aspect and the implicit and explicit social engineering implied in the setting.
That, or the professor is hopelessly addicted.
Such things as "what is the most appealing aspect of MMORGs" and "what can we learn and apply to Terran politics" would be quite interesting. Also, there's the whole "Lord of the Flies" aspect which would be intriguing.
Of course, you'd have to filter out both the escapism aspect and the implicit and explicit social engineering implied in the setting.
That, or the professor is hopelessly addicted.
MarauderX
Explorer
The real deal.
I know a guy that works for the "State Department" that is a gamer and took a 'games' class when he was in college, but I can't remember where it was at. He told me all about the class and such, as I also wished I had a cool course like that.
The students were asked to create games and they started out with simple ones (board games like Sorry) and progressed to complex ones that were supposed to last for more than one sitting (like D&D). He said most of the complex ones were modeled after d20 games that most of the students were already aware of, but some of the other results were rather unusual. The prof also had the old PHB and DMG on the list of reading in his syllabus for that part of the class.
Just wish I could recall where he graduated from...
I know a guy that works for the "State Department" that is a gamer and took a 'games' class when he was in college, but I can't remember where it was at. He told me all about the class and such, as I also wished I had a cool course like that.
The students were asked to create games and they started out with simple ones (board games like Sorry) and progressed to complex ones that were supposed to last for more than one sitting (like D&D). He said most of the complex ones were modeled after d20 games that most of the students were already aware of, but some of the other results were rather unusual. The prof also had the old PHB and DMG on the list of reading in his syllabus for that part of the class.
Just wish I could recall where he graduated from...
