Le jeu de rôle sur table : une forme littéraire intercréative de la fiction ?

Abstract

This article deals with pen & paper role-playing games as an oral and collective way to create fiction through verbal language, and questions its relation to literature. It explains role-playing games set up game procedures to enable, even oblige, players to co-create narrative and diegetic contents, according to what we call intercreativity. Thus, role-playing games turn reader-response into a step of fictional creation. But can they be considered as a form of oral and collective literary game? To answer this question, this article first analyzes the relation between literature and games. Then, it examines role-playing games as a conversational, oral and “presentified” process generating collective and fictional creation. Intercreativity makes reappear a Dionysian way to consider literature, which has been annihilated during the Modern era.

Keywords

• roleplaying game
• literature
• interactivity
• intercreativity
• reception
• oral literature