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Transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG

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Published: September 22, 2025 17:52

Introduction: How Rules Mediate Transmedia Narrative in TTRPGs Tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) remediate and remix various media and genres, and they are often part of larger transmedia storytelling projects. As Paul Booth explains, “Transmediation of…

Approaching Controversial Conflicts: Tabletop Simulations as Museums

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Published: September 22, 2025 17:51

Introduction Historical simulation and games-based learning have demonstrated over the last two decades that they are mediums that support learning about the peoples of the past. In ways, they are pedagogical tools that are relatively more effective in…

The Case for Chaos: Leveraging Contingency in Taskmaster and in Mental Health

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Published: September 22, 2025 16:08

“Make the best picture in the sand of a former Taskmaster contestant using one of these implements. You must roll the dice to choose your implement. Nothing but air may touch the sand at any point.  You have 10 minutes, your time starts as soon as you have…

80 Games with 20 Students: A Review and Case Study

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Published: September 22, 2025 16:05

Du Sautoy, Marcus. Around the World in Eighty Games. New York: Hachette Book Group, 2023. 369 pages, Paperback w/ color illustrations. ISBN 978-1-66-863312-0 Around the World in Eighty Games (hereafter Eighty Games), published in October 2023, is the…

A Queer OS Powered by the Apocalypse: Feminist Platforms and TTRPG Engines

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Published: July 4, 2025 04:05

Since its release in 2010, the post-apocalyptic tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) Apocalypse World by Vincent Baker and Meguey Baker has inspired hundreds of games, hacks, homebrews, and playbooks under an umbrella now known as Powered by the Apocalypse…

Fluid Dynamics: Precarity and Porousness in Ecological Solo Journaling Games

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Published: July 4, 2025 04:04

Content warning: Trauma, precarity, self harm, climate change anxiety. Introduction: Solo Journaling Games as Critical Intervention The game tells me I probably will not survive, and I do not the first time I play. Instead, I go insane, destroy all the…

Is There Room for Queer Chaos at Yazeba’s?

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Published: July 4, 2025 04:03

Cozy Aesthetics and Queer Domesticities “Once upon a time, the world was cruel, and there was a witch who knew it well. And so, she sold her heart away and built a house in the woods where the world could never find her.” Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast (Possum…

liches, lampreys, and the moon: an incantation for trans life & lyrical play

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Published: July 4, 2025 04:01

the witches gather A candle’s flame winks out as the last of the wax burns down, leaving Percy alone on his bedroom floor surrounded by chalk smudges and crushed peppercorns. It’s November 2020; Percy has administered his first shot of testosterone earlier…

Postcards from Role-Playing the Humanities

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Published: April 30, 2025 19:50

This collaborative, retrospective essay weaves together the reflections of fourteen participants at the Role-Playing the Humanities event at the University of Cincinnati (UC) on March 31 and April 1, 2025.  The symposium brought together students, faculty,…

How to Re-Configure the Social Interaction Among Danish Lonely Young Adults Through a Social Design Approach

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Published: April 30, 2025 19:48

Introduction Loneliness is considered a significant societal problem in modern western society. Even though Denmark is regarded as one of the happiest nations in the world, a large part of the population often feels lonely or socially isolated. In a…