Three Dice: A Game Villanelle Choose three dice – one black, one white, one gray. Keep them with you always.…
As someone who does research on gender and games, I often hear the conventional wisdom that men prefer to play…
Since I wrote about Dread, I’ve found myself noticing instructional design choices in role-playing games – and realizing that there’s…
For the past six months, I’ve been part of a blogging collective over at Gaming as Women. I write on…
If you haven’t yet heard, Valve announced Teach With Portals, a new initiative to help students learn about physics by…
Hello from AERA! Today I presented Playing History, the research project on tabletop role-playing games and historical literacy that I did…
The brilliant and inimitable Vincent Baker went to a horror convention and tried to sell horror role-playing games – and it…
I just found out about the Play Generated Map and Document Archive, which organizes and preserves role-playing game ephemera like…
I recently posted my eleven favorite fiction books from 2011; here are their non-fiction counterparts. (You’ll notice I’m reading a…
Welcome, friends, to another year of my reading life! Every year at about this time, I take a minute to…