For the LARPers among you: Finnish Larp theorist
jiituomas links to an online version of his his MittelPunkt 2010 paper
A Brief Introduction to Larp as an Art Form.
Elsewhere, Deeper in the Game has a brief but thought provoking piece about representations of race in RPGs:
The validity of stories. There are a lot of links worth pursuing in DitG's blogroll if the topic is of interest.
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