tabletop

Plundering the Past: Historical Tech in the Science Fantasy RPG Numenera

On: October 23, 2013

The cat’s meow in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) for the last several months has been Monte Cook’s Numerera. Set one billion years in Earth’s future during a time known as the Ninth World, Numenera is a Kickstarter-funded science fantasy RPG that embraces as its core concern one of the fundamentalContinue Reading

Colonialism, Privilege, and Meaningful Play in Dog Eat Dog

By: Rebecca Mir

On: April 24, 2013

In: Interviews

Game designer Liam Liwanag Burke describes Dog Eat Dog as a “fun, compelling game about colonialism and assimilation in the Pacific Islands.” That’s right – Burke created a fun roleplaying game about the inequality inherent to colonialism and its consequences. One player acts as the Occupation (all of it – leaders, military, and touristsContinue Reading