The third issue of the peer-reviewed International Journal of Role-Playing (http://journalofroleplaying.org/) is out. Inside the issue you can find the following:
Editorial: The state of our art.
Karl Bergström: Creativity Rules. How rules impact player creativity in three tabletop role-playing games.
Petri Lankoski and Simo Järvelä: An embodied cognition approach for understanding role-playing.
Mikael Hellstrom: A tale of two cities: Symbolic capital and larp community formation in Canada and Sweden.
Mikko Meriläinen: The self-perceived effects of the role-playing hobby on personal development – a survey report.
Here’s a direct link to the journal issue:
http://www.ijrp.subcultures.nl/wp-content/issue3/IJRPissue3.pdf