I'm finishing an essay on Dungeons and Dragons and philosophy (!), about the notion of world in D&D. Thus I'm having to re-read large swathes of Being and Time. Somehow it feels good this time. It's not always that way. The book has a certain extremely distinctive feeling to it, but it's curiously like a fantasy role playing game or a Tolkien novel. There's a combination of mystery and earthiness, like resting on a stone you realize is a standing stone.
cant wait to see that essay!
ReplyDeleteThis might be far afield, but have you looked at roleplaying games like "Shock," which take world-building out of the hands of the game-master and make it collaborative? "Mage" is another game that thematizes consensual world-building, though it relies on a GM-controlled setting: different paradigms create their own worlds so that magic is essentially an attempt to force one world upon another.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see it! I'm a big fan of both (D&D and B&T). Have you seen this from theonion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8gE3lnpLQ
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