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Roleplays (RP's) are performative practices that enable the creation of characters in fictional cities in the space of games (gameplaces). These virtual lives-narratives are energized by diverse social voices, where languages, discourses and worldviews, transmuted in the psychosocial constitution of these representations amplified by cyberculture. In this context, we seek to analyze the dialogism constituting the identity of the character Maria Vaquejada with the hypothesis that the gamer and streamer LuCroft articulates two chronotopes in the architecture of her role-playing: one related to the 19th century of the United States, circumscribed in Red Dead Redemption 2 and, another, interconnected to the experiences of queer bodies (gays, transvestites, drag queens, non-binary, among others) that intersect with the contemporary gamer sphere. The analysis has as an epistemological approach the dialogical perspective of language produced in the writings of the Bakhtin Circle, from which we trigger concepts such as dialogism, polyphony, alterity and chronotope. In the thickening of the discussion undertaken, we also mobilized the ideas of Brait (2006, 2011, 2013), Butler (2003), Muriel and Crawford (2018), Shaw (2011) and Ruberg (2019, 2020). The extraction of data consists, from a diachronic cut, of 20 sequential videos collected on the YouTube channel of LuCroft. The results of the analysis point to varied discourses that mark the different positions of the subject as "bar owner", "religious", "woman who fights misogyny", in addition to a chronotope rework with socio-historical aspects of the Brazilian Northeast of the century 19th and 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since their origins, role-playing games have been linked with the fantasy literature genre, which in turn rewrites the mythic stories. Role-playing games and fantasy literature will establish a dialogue exercising a reciprocal influence and making contact with another type of media like cinema, comic-books or videogames. In this dialogue, mythology will be present indeed. This paper's intention is to delve in the relationships between mythology, popular culture and the roleplaying games, since their influences and inspirations, to the very structure of the narrative in roleplaying games, where players take the role of heroes going through their initiatory journey, a journey with a great potential to educate, in which both players and their characters will evolve through their own endless stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since their origins, role-playing games have been linked with the fantasy literature genre, which in turn rewrites the mythic stories. Role-playing games and fantasy literature will establish a dialogue exercising a reciprocal influence and making contact with another type of media like cinema, comic-books or videogames. In this dialogue, mythology will be present indeed. This paper's intention is to delve in the relationships between mythology, popular culture and the roleplaying games, since their influences and inspirations, to the very structure of the narrative in roleplaying games, where players take the role of heroes going through their initiatory journey, a journey with a great potential to educate, in which both players and their characters will evolve through their own endless stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the profile of a prototype reader of role games books and the data were obtained through the collaboration of the responsible of the «Casa de las Conchas Public Library», located in Salamanca. For this study, we made a complete index, of existing data in the computer system, of users whose lent role game books, in the aforementioned library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work study and analyze the history and development of a journal, from its birth, on paper, until its transformation into electronic version. For this analysis we have focused in Dragon Magazine, which was the most important magazine of role playing games (or RPGs) published until now, especially with regard to the first commercial RPG, Dungeons & Dragons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work study and analyze from role games the social perception of Archaeology and the subject who develops, the archaeologist. The role playing games (or RPG) often use historic environment, for these reason we focus the analysis on the given Archaeology vision. This paper aims to highlight the image that comes to the society of our work from this kind of games. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]