No. 18: International Journal of Role-playing Issue 18

Special Issue on Foundational Approaches and the Role-Play in Games Conference

Published: 2026-04-04

Editorial

IJRP Full Issue 18 -- Special Issue on Foundational Approaches and the Role-Play in Games Conference

Leland Masek, Josefin Westborg, Daniel Gonzalez Cohens, Șerban Mark Pop, Josephine Baird, Lauri Lukka, Sarah Lynne Bowman, Jukka Särkijärvi, Steven Dashiell, Mátyás Hartyándi, Pengze Zheng, Adrian Hermann, Ian Sturrock, Jaakko Stenros, Felipe García-Soriano, Antonio Pomposini Tabja, Daniel Fernández Galeote, Nicholas J. Mizer

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IJRP 18 Table of Contents

Leland Masek
Editorial: Special Issue on Foundational Approaches and the Role-Play in Games Conference

Leland Masek, Daniel Fernández Galeote, Antonio Pomposini Tabja, Felipe García-Soriano, Jaakko Stenros, Ian Sturrock

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Peer-reviewed article

Another Kind of Future/Past: Decolonial and Asiafuturist Imagination in the Philippines from the 19th Century to the Contemporary Tabletop Role-Playing Games of #rpgsea

Adrian Hermann

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From “Playing a Role” to “Role-Playing Games”: The Genealogy and History of the Term “Role-Playing”

Mátyás Hartyándi

37-50
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Hack, Slash, Heal, Repeat: Theorizing the Concept of the Murderhobo in Dungeons & Dragons

Steven Dashiell

51-61
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On the Metaplot: A Look at Transmedial Storytelling in Tabletop Role-Playing Games

Jukka Särkijärvi

62-73
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Losing and Finding Oneself: Duo- and Autoethnographic Study of "Character" in the Larp Superrealism

Sarah Lynne Bowman, Lauri Lukka, Josephine Baird

74-91
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"How Do You Want To Do This?": Us, Role-Playing Games, and The End of the World

Șerban Mark Pop

92-100
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The Dynamic Loop Model: A Systemic-Cybernetic Meta-Theoretical Framework for Understanding Tabletop Role-Playing Games

Felipe García-Soriano, Daniel Gonzalez Cohens

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How is Learning in Edu-Larp as a Method Described and Seen by Practitioners?

Josefin Westborg

120-138
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The Role of the Cosmographer

Nicholas J. Mizer

139-150
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