[CAR-PGa] DIE by Kieron Gillen et al.


By Car
The popular and critically-acclaimed comics writer Kieron Gillen currently has a series running called DIE (punning on both the thing you roll and what happens to all life in the end). The one-sentence plot blurb is a riff on the old "players get sucked into an RPG as their characters" trope, but it's one with entire bibliographies of authoritative sources on the history of RPGs, the Satanic Panic, the video game industry, the Brontë siblings (including Branwell), and presumably more to come, along with essays on worldbuilding, plot structure, influences, &c.

The first volume is currently a finalist for the Hugo for Best Graphic Story or Comic (along with the final volume of one of Gillen's other series).

The author has also written an actual RPG of the comic which is being playtested by himself and fans and revised as the series progresses. In it, you create the players of the RPG that will suck them into it, step away from the table, and return in character to play those players making their characters in the game-within-a-game. The real meat is then the negotiation of the fictional players' interests in remaining in the game world or not, and how those might be resolved. . . .

Anyway, if you're interested in the underlying research, you should definitely get each compilation volume through your local library as they come out and check out the bibliographies and essays.

ISBNs for ease of finding:
Vol. 1: 978-1534312708
Vol. 2: 978-1534314979
Vol. 3: 978-1534317161 (currently slated for December)

—M. Alan Thomas II

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