Mask of a World Spirit: Procedural Rhetoric, Symbolic Correspondence, and (in)Sovereignty in Tabletop Roleplaying Games

• In Event: Global Politics in Pop Culture

Brief Overview

This paper reimagines the Westphalian international system through roleplaying games (RPGs), with designers, gamemasters, and players being the dominant political actors in imagined global communities.

Author

• James "Pigeon" D. Fielder, Colorado State University