{"pk":65624,"title":"\"Murders on the Stage, Tortures, Woundings, and the Like\": Dungeons & Dragons Adventures as Tragedy","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This article examines Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) adventures as a genre to address game content, player agency, and reception.  Specifically, Aristotle's Poetics serves as a starting point for the analysis of D&D adventures in order to think about the similarities between theatre and TTRPGs but also the nature and experience of tragedy and D&D adventures.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Dungeons & Dragons"},{"word":"D&D"},{"word":"tragedy"},{"word":"theater"},{"word":"player agency"},{"word":"reception"},{"word":"Aristotle"},{"word":"Poetics"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1nz7z32b","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Brian","middle_name":"","last_name":"McKenzie","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-30T14:30:00+05:30","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/analoggamestudies/article/65624/galley/50390/download/"}]}