The optional guidelines and rules presented in this brochure were devised in order to enhance the overall game balance of Decipher’s Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game. A Narrator should carefully evaluate each option and decide whether it is appropriate for the style of his chronicle or not. Any rules conceived or written by others than Decipher or the author of this brochure are shown with th...

The present article aims to analyze the process of recovering marine imagery in some contemporary Romanian fictional works. study will proceed with our from two distinct perspectives: point view a narrator who gained experience on board ships and an imaginary narrator-traveler. For case studies, few postmodern fictions have been considered. limits between reality fiction are identify literary e...

Narrator, Audience and Performance in Rural Ukrainian Storytelling Jennifer Dickinson ([email protected]) University of Vermont, Dept. of Anthropology Introduction: The Place of Stories in Apsha Social Life In my experience, no one is more pitied in Ukrainian rural life than the person who is alone, as I discovered when I would try to sit in the house alone and read or work at my compu...

One goal of interactive narrative and drama is to create an experience while utilizing computer where the user is one main character in the story. This goal raises a set of practical and theoretical challenges to Artificial Intelligence. In particular, an Intelligent Narrator has to dynamically maintain a satisfactory storyline and adapt to the user intervention. After reviewing the existing ap...

The article analyzes the interaction of verbal and non-verbal elements in Grishkovets’ solo performances. material for analysis is official video recordings Performances by Grishkovets play texts he published afterwards are interconnected but different works — with differing content, motif systems, differently placed semantic accents. It (spatial movements, gestures, props decorations, etc.) th...

Brian Ó Nualláin is a man of many names and voices. The narrative power he posseses exemplified when comparing 'The Plain People Ireland' segments the Cruiskeen Lawn columns in Irish Times, penned under pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen, voice nameless narrator Flann O'Brien's Third Policeman. Within these two works, position intellectual society portrayed through quite different lenses: self-confid...