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Performance is a major part of role-playing, and role-playing games as a performing art is the subject of this book, which attempts to introduce an appreciation for the performance aesthetics of such games. The author provides the framework for a critical model useful in understanding the art of role-playing games.

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Veritable cookbook of gameology. Buy it...there is no other book out there that covers this topic so accurately, with so much application to actually gaming...Mackay really tells it like it is...detailed." —Rpg.net

"The most serious book on its subject so far." —Interzone

The Fantasy RolePlaying Game

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    A Paperback by Daniel Mackay

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      Publisher: McFarland & Company
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/14/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780786408153, 978-0786408153
      ISBN10: 0786408154

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      Book Synopsis
      Performance is a major part of role-playing, and role-playing games as a performing art is the subject of this book, which attempts to introduce an appreciation for the performance aesthetics of such games. The author provides the framework for a critical model useful in understanding the art of role-playing games.

      Trade Review
      Veritable cookbook of gameology. Buy it...there is no other book out there that covers this topic so accurately, with so much application to actually gaming...Mackay really tells it like it is...detailed." —Rpg.net

      "The most serious book on its subject so far." —Interzone

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