1. Meet weekly for 20 years to play tabletop RPGs.
2. Mainly but not exclusively D&D.
3. Argue about which version of D&D.
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Ava Wong Davies: The Island Looked Fine
For a game which markets itself as a balm, as a soothing antidote to the pressures of modern life, I find that I play Animal Crossing: New Horizons with a kind of frenzied, fractured intensity.
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Aga Serugo-Lugo: Spiel
CLAUDIA: It’s too early.
DEE: We’re the hosts. Please attempt a smile.
CLAUDIA: Bottom left.
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Elspeth Wilson: Two Poems About The Sims
There is a cheat code that doesn’t require you to be an asshole but we still don’t need it.Continue reading Elspeth Wilson: Two Poems About The Sims
Zainabb Hull: Playing Tabletop Games Alone Helped Me To Feel Less Lonely
When strict social distancing measures came into place in London in March 2020, it felt like the world was finally catching up with me.
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Matt Turner & Steph Watts: Travel through Videogames
Like many during this time of restricted movement and limited variation, I have turned to videogames, which can provide a sort of astral projection: a way of travelling to new universes without leaving your home or body.
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Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux: Sudoku between Banality and Terror
Today the sky turned orange. It’s September 9, and smoke from California’s many wildfires (one sparked by the pyrotechnics from a gender reveal party in Yupica, just east of LA) is filtering the sun in the East Bay.
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Anna Kate Blair: Digital Prophecies
I am afraid of Pisces season, when all my serious relationships have ended, each a few days later than the one before. There’s no safety after Valentine’s Day.
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Samuel Barker: A List of Puzzles My At-Risk Father Has Completed During Quarantine
My sister and I sent my father a 5,000-piece puzzle for Father’s Day in Quarantine. We considered sending him another puzzle for his birthday shortly after but our mother asked us not to.
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Danny Hawk: Folk Games, Flash Communities and Tiktok
In February my friend Emily Koonce and I hosted the Folk Game Game Jam, and for a few hours we ran around our university as if it were our childhood neighborhood.
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