Mitología, cultura popular y juegos de rol

Abstract

Since their origins, role-playing games have been linked with the fantasy literature genre, which in turn rewrites the mythic stories. Role-playing games and fantasy literature will establish a dialogue exercising a reciprocal influence and making contact with another type of media like cinema, comic-books or videogames. In this dialogue, mythology will be present indeed. This paper’s intention is to delve in the relationships between mythology, popular culture and the roleplaying games, since their influences and inspirations, to the very structure of the narrative in roleplaying games, where players take the role of heroes going through their initiatory journey, a journey with a great potential to educate, in which both players and their characters will evolve through their own endless stories.