Theory review #102

• What does it mean to be Orlanthi? Hermeneutic challenge in King of Dragon pass by Jonne Arjoranta sees understanding a foreign culture as a form of challenge. https://jyx.jyu.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/51726/arjoranta2016.pdf?sequence=1
• Lost dungeons of Tonisborg by Greg Svenson, Daniel H. Boggs and Dan Collins discusses Dave Arneson’s early games and a very early dungeon by Greg Svenson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKAdC6x9DbA
• The challenge of evaluating player experience in tabletop role-playing games by Antonios Liapis and Alena Denisova sets the stage for player experience evaluation by finding parallels in digital games and outlining what more would have to be done. https://antoniosliapis.com/papers/the_challenge_of_evaluating_player_experience_in_tabletop_role-playing_games.pdf
• I am… bothered about D&D by Kristian A. Bjørkelo argues that game studies should broaden their focus beyond Dungeons and dragons to also cover other tabletop roleplaying games, also due to the financial strategy and dominance of Wizards of the coast. https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/eludamos/article/download/6981/7161