Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Mentor
Janet Land
Abstract
Excerpt from Introduction
In 1982, Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons (BADD) was created. BADD was a group consisted of parents, teachers, and clergy who were worried about the spiritual and mental development of children, who they saw were at risk of being corrupted by a single game—Dungeons & Dragons. The group campaigned again and again, warning fellow parents about the detrimental effect that this game could have on a child’s life. They believed Dungeons & Dragons had a kind of power over its players—a power that could create meaning and even take children to their eternal doom. This is just one argument for the idea that tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons have the power to create meaning in a person’s life and influence their development. However, BADD was misinformed on how this meaning was created and how an individual’s development can be impacted by these games.
Citation Information
Flournoy, Benjamin Luke, "Tabletop Role-Playing Games, Narrative, and Individual Development" (2018). Undergraduate Honors Theses. 26.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/undergrad-honors/26