Special Issue: Perspectives on Role-Playing Game Studies from Latin-American Scholars — Miguel A. Bastarrachea-Magnani

Role Playing Games as an Educational Stimulation — Ricardo Morales Carbajal and Eduardo Adrian Chavez Lizama

Exploring Cultural Narratives Through RPG Design: The 4th Bootcamp #PascualChallenge on Social Fictions and RPGs –– Francisco Fernando Gallego Escobar and Juan D. Henao-Santa

Tabletop and Digital Rituals in Dungeons & Dragons — Mauricio Rangel Jimenez, Cristo León, and James Lipuma

Constitutive Factors of Mega-Campaigns in TTRPGs: A Systematic Literature Review — Cristo León, Marcos O. Cabobianco, and James Lipuma

A Tri-Heuristic Ontological Approximation of Tabletop RPGs –– Miguel A. Bastarrachea-Magnani, Edgar Meritano, and Cristo León

This special issue, edited by Miguel A. Bastarrachea-Magnani, offers us five articles from the insightful and highly productive Latin American RPG studies community RIJR, which has formed around the eight consecutive conferences, Coloquios internacionales de estudios sobre juegos de rol. This community, which focuses on philosophy and education, has effectively created its own RPG studies track, one which relies on standard sources and citations from the analog games community, but isn’t itself often cited.

Analog Game Studies seeks to remedy this situation by publishing articles of interest on tabletop RPGs in philosophy and education from the Latin American RPG studies community. The mixture of qualitative and quantitative work here suggests a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach, which the authors make explicit throughout their work. Even though hiring and review in higher education encourages the shoring up of disciplinary studies, this special issue is a helpful reminder that academic inquiry in tabletop RPGs is inter-, trans-, and multi-disciplinary by necessity. The object of study itself refuses any other approach.

We ourselves read these essays with great interest, and hope you do the same. We now direct you to Bastarrachea-Magnani’s introduction to get into the details of the issue.

–– The Analog Game Studies Editors
October 14, 2024.