Call of Cthulhu and Vampire: the Masquerade: invocation, spatiality, and ritual transcendence in two tabletop role-playing games
| dc.contributor.author | Brunette, Tyler, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Diffrient, Scott, advisor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dickinson, Greg, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Snodgrass, Jeffrey, committee member | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-11T15:13:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-01-11T15:13:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In 1974 the world's first Tabletop Roleplaying Game (TRPG) was published, Dungeons and Dragons. Since that time hundreds of TRPGs have been published in multiple genres. In this thesis I explore the rhetoric of two of the most popular horror-themed TRPGs: Call of Cthulhu and Vampire: the Masquerade. I focus on explaining how these games came to be, how they serve their players as equipment for living, how they rhetorically (re)construct real-world places and spaces, and finally, how they encourage transcendence and jamming through ritual play and participation. This thesis hopefully helps to show the complex multi-layered rhetoric taking place in a relatively ignored form of media. Additionally, I introduce the concept of textual invocation as a complimentary theoretical construct to that of textual poaching as an explanation for how players and designers engage in a give and take of authorship. | |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | masters theses | |
| dc.identifier | Brunette_colostate_0053N_13283.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10217/170313 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2000-2019 | |
| dc.rights | Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. | |
| dc.subject | games | |
| dc.subject | horror | |
| dc.subject | rhetoric | |
| dc.subject | role-playing | |
| dc.title | Call of Cthulhu and Vampire: the Masquerade: invocation, spatiality, and ritual transcendence in two tabletop role-playing games | |
| dc.type | Text | |
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| thesis.degree.discipline | Communication Studies | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Colorado State University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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