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Diversity & the Tabletop Gaming Community

Posted on 2015 December 14 by njwDecember 14, 2015

This video is pretty neat: I have a few quibbles — being focused largely on game designers, being focused largely on Metatopia, tending to have more white cis hetero guys as the video progresses (and potentially implications of that) — … Continue reading →

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Movies for gaming: Ofelas

Posted on 2014 May 17 by njwMay 17, 2014

Having had it recommended to me many times, I finally watched the movie Ofelas (Pathfinder) recently. It lives up to the reviews; what a good find! It’s set in northern Scandinavia, in the land of the Sami people (sometimes incorrectly … Continue reading →

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THAC0 on YouTube

Posted on 2014 April 27 by njwApril 27, 2014

There are a lot of movies that feel like RPG adventures — Ladyhawke, for example — and there are even a pretty good number of movies directly about RPGs, like the second D&D movie. But I just discovered that one … Continue reading →

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Movies for gaming: Ladyhawke

Posted on 2014 April 2 by njwMarch 8, 2015

Recently I re-watched Ladyhawke for the umpteenth time. It’s always been one of my favorite fantasy movies, but this time, I watched it with a specific eye towards gaming. What ideas could I get from it for gaming? How easy … Continue reading →

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The D&D movies

Posted on 2013 September 19 by njwMarch 24, 2015

For such a successful game, it’s funny how unsuccessful the (official) D&D movies have been. Part of it is probably just popular disdain of gaming culture. Most of it, though, is probably the fault of the first D&D movie. It … Continue reading →

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Is Jordan Peele a gamer?

Posted on 2012 December 29 by njwDecember 29, 2012

If you haven’t seen it, go watch the “Kanye the Giant” sketch from Key & Peele. It has its problems — it plays into some of the sexist stereotypes in gaming culture, certainly. It gets a few small details wrong … Continue reading →

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