This week has been particularly full of blog articles about social issues and gaming. What follows is mostly a series of links, but I think the maturity and ferment of ideas in these important posts points both to a continuing maturation of our hobby and its many interconnections within wider society.
Bill Walton continues to uncover interesting stories and writes so well about them. Just this week, his own blog at The Escapist has covered today's National Gaming Day, which covers RPGs and so much more and is sponsored by the American Library Association, and Teach Your Kids to Game Week, sponsored by DriveThruRPG and starting this Monday. It would great to hear from everyone about their experiences in these areas.
Bill also found an interesting article in The Harvard Crimson, "Life Out There," about a homeless gamer, and Bill has a new page on his web site, "The Five Ws of RPGs," which neatly describes the world of gaming to non-gamers, a useful tool for many of us!
Over at Role Playing Tips, Katrina Middleburg-Creswell writes about playing role playing games with children, a topic near to my own heart. She discusses both conversations with concerned parents and various methods for deploying games in different ways with kids at various ages, depending on your goals. It's a great, clear read and outlines the covers you should consider before running games with kids, especially with other people's children or with students.
Here's to more fruitful conversations!
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Review: The Functions of Role-Playing Games
Sarah Lynne Bowman has written a fascinating book, The Functions of Role-Playing Games, published by McFarland & Company. She traces a carefully argued series of propositions, taking a wide view of roleplaying in its many aspects and incarnations and tracing its links both to pretend play, storytelling, and primeval ritual and to modern theories of psychology and sociology. Bowman states many of these significant connections as well as anyone has done so.
An early emphasis of Bowman's is the manner in which roleplaying creates community through narrative ritual, something as old as humanity. While she does not explore every interesting anthropological comparison, she does make a strong case for modern recreational roleplaying as simply a recent manifestation of human's primal need to engage in group ritual practices.
Bowman also notes out that roleplaying games exist in diverse contexts, from theater to business, from therapy to leisure, and more, and she points out that the reputation of these various forms of roleplaying enjoy varies, some neutral or positive, while others, like theater or roleplaying games and even psychological roleplaying, are sometimes viewed with suspicion. She engages in an interesting discussion of differing perceptions of play among children and adults and how this has colored society's conclusions about games, roleplaying in particular.
Moving from this, Bowman points out that roleplaying games all create opportunities for skill training and problem solving. Some games do this purposefully, while others have incidental moments of challenge, transformation, and learning. Different fields, as mentioned above and discussed in greater depth in the book, have different focuses when it comes to overt didactic elements, whether in content or style.
All such games, though, offer their participants the change to engage in identity alteration, which ties back in with ritual enactments, but Bowman's main avenue for exploring this aspect of games is psychological. She concludes that, generally speaking, this sort of activity is normal and common to many activities and that most people engage in such self-transformation will learn from the experience or come out stronger for it, but she acknowledges that identity alteration does shade into several serious mental illnesses or conditions.
The first half of The Functions of Role-Playing Games is, for me, a satisfyingly rich literature review and analysis, in which Bowman expands or definitions and understandings of roleplaying, while the second half of the book, based mostly on individual anecdotal accounts coupled with an emphasis on Dungeons & Dragons and Vampire, the games most familiar to the author, was also interesting but particular to the assembly of information she had available from her subjects and may not have broad applicability or led to real understanding of the fascinating questions she raises. For example, a significant proportion of her subjects discussed feelings of alienation, which in some cases led them to roleplaying games or fashioned their understandings of it. It is hard to compare the degree of this alienation to that experienced by the general population or to assess its actual impact on the subject's game behavior, since all of the accounts are self-reported.
That said, Bowman has provided a well-written and captivating exposition of many theoretical and cultural aspects of roleplaying, linking the games we play to many more venerable and valuable fields of study. I gained greater understanding of my own games and their players, whether adults or children, and I can now perceive more deeply and richly what occurs in such games.
An early emphasis of Bowman's is the manner in which roleplaying creates community through narrative ritual, something as old as humanity. While she does not explore every interesting anthropological comparison, she does make a strong case for modern recreational roleplaying as simply a recent manifestation of human's primal need to engage in group ritual practices.
Bowman also notes out that roleplaying games exist in diverse contexts, from theater to business, from therapy to leisure, and more, and she points out that the reputation of these various forms of roleplaying enjoy varies, some neutral or positive, while others, like theater or roleplaying games and even psychological roleplaying, are sometimes viewed with suspicion. She engages in an interesting discussion of differing perceptions of play among children and adults and how this has colored society's conclusions about games, roleplaying in particular.
Moving from this, Bowman points out that roleplaying games all create opportunities for skill training and problem solving. Some games do this purposefully, while others have incidental moments of challenge, transformation, and learning. Different fields, as mentioned above and discussed in greater depth in the book, have different focuses when it comes to overt didactic elements, whether in content or style.
All such games, though, offer their participants the change to engage in identity alteration, which ties back in with ritual enactments, but Bowman's main avenue for exploring this aspect of games is psychological. She concludes that, generally speaking, this sort of activity is normal and common to many activities and that most people engage in such self-transformation will learn from the experience or come out stronger for it, but she acknowledges that identity alteration does shade into several serious mental illnesses or conditions.
The first half of The Functions of Role-Playing Games is, for me, a satisfyingly rich literature review and analysis, in which Bowman expands or definitions and understandings of roleplaying, while the second half of the book, based mostly on individual anecdotal accounts coupled with an emphasis on Dungeons & Dragons and Vampire, the games most familiar to the author, was also interesting but particular to the assembly of information she had available from her subjects and may not have broad applicability or led to real understanding of the fascinating questions she raises. For example, a significant proportion of her subjects discussed feelings of alienation, which in some cases led them to roleplaying games or fashioned their understandings of it. It is hard to compare the degree of this alienation to that experienced by the general population or to assess its actual impact on the subject's game behavior, since all of the accounts are self-reported.
That said, Bowman has provided a well-written and captivating exposition of many theoretical and cultural aspects of roleplaying, linking the games we play to many more venerable and valuable fields of study. I gained greater understanding of my own games and their players, whether adults or children, and I can now perceive more deeply and richly what occurs in such games.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Review: Argyle & Crew
Argyle & Crew by Benjamin Gerber is a delightful role-playing game based on sock puppets. The game draws on some basic but sophisticated elements of childhood imagination and play to create a game of whimsy and great potential. I was immediately reminded of the work of Daniel Greenspan in the area of floor time, encouraging caregivers to think about the form and quality of their work with the very young. I definitely recommend this game to parents and others working with young children or looking for a diversion, but I also think many other gamers should get a copy of this game to mine it for several other inspirations.
Character creation, using socks or paper bags or whatever comes to hand, is a concrete way to proceed, but it also could inspire interesting ideas for adult gamers. The basic game is diceless, so elements attached to the puppet create opportunities for powers and storytelling within the game itself. I have been in a couple of gaming groups where we have tried to add character illustrations and other imagery to the game, but this routinely foundered on some players' self-consciousness about their own artistic abilities. Anyone reading through the short description of character creation in Argyle & Crew would realize that it's worth another chance. This method of character creation could also be elaborated into more sophisticated forms as well.
The game also includes insightful sections on saying yes to players and about working with conflict in a game group. I would hope that Gerber would share some version of them online or in his blog. Appendices include ideas for expanding the basic game into a dice version with additional ideas for more complex, adult play.
The Argyle & Crew game is currently available in pdf form from Drive Thru, but there is a drive to raise $3000 to fund the publication of the game in full.
Character creation, using socks or paper bags or whatever comes to hand, is a concrete way to proceed, but it also could inspire interesting ideas for adult gamers. The basic game is diceless, so elements attached to the puppet create opportunities for powers and storytelling within the game itself. I have been in a couple of gaming groups where we have tried to add character illustrations and other imagery to the game, but this routinely foundered on some players' self-consciousness about their own artistic abilities. Anyone reading through the short description of character creation in Argyle & Crew would realize that it's worth another chance. This method of character creation could also be elaborated into more sophisticated forms as well.
The game also includes insightful sections on saying yes to players and about working with conflict in a game group. I would hope that Gerber would share some version of them online or in his blog. Appendices include ideas for expanding the basic game into a dice version with additional ideas for more complex, adult play.
The Argyle & Crew game is currently available in pdf form from Drive Thru, but there is a drive to raise $3000 to fund the publication of the game in full.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Speak Out With Your Geek Out
Wow, two blog posts in one week! A new personal best!
This coming week celebrates Speak Out With Your Geek Out, a wonderful and widespread celebration of Geekdom unilaterally declared by Monica Valentinelli in her blog, Flames Rising blog. As a teacher and public gamer, my geek is out there most of the time, but I want to join her and many others in making sure everyone around me knows that I'm a gamer geek and happy to be one. I encourage you to join the movement as well. It's a good thing to do for those of us comfortable in our various interests and hobbies, and it will give permission to many others presently more shy about doing so.
In my day job, I teach Chinese studies, and my favorite find at Gen Con this year was a t-shirt from Gamer Concepts that reads, 扮演角色类游戏玩家, translating more or less as role player. Woohoo!
Have fun!
This coming week celebrates Speak Out With Your Geek Out, a wonderful and widespread celebration of Geekdom unilaterally declared by Monica Valentinelli in her blog, Flames Rising blog. As a teacher and public gamer, my geek is out there most of the time, but I want to join her and many others in making sure everyone around me knows that I'm a gamer geek and happy to be one. I encourage you to join the movement as well. It's a good thing to do for those of us comfortable in our various interests and hobbies, and it will give permission to many others presently more shy about doing so.
In my day job, I teach Chinese studies, and my favorite find at Gen Con this year was a t-shirt from Gamer Concepts that reads, 扮演角色类游戏玩家, translating more or less as role player. Woohoo!
Have fun!
Friday, September 9, 2011
Dragon*Con 2011
I had such a good time at Dragon Con in my hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, this year, it took me most of the week to recover!
I was scheduled to run a HeroQuest Glorantha game every four hours from 9:00 am to 10:00 pm Saturday and Sunday and from 9:00 to 4:00 on Monday. Almost all of these had enough people show up to play, and I had a great time with friends old and new. In my couple of gaps, other than eating I was able to watch the whole parade and play in another GM's game of dark future and magic. Very cool and fun!
Other than that, I had little time to cruise around the convention, which spread across more than five conference hotels downtown. What I saw looked full of fun with more costumes than ever, ranging from classic to whimsical. Dragon Con now draws loads of men and women, families with many, many kids, and people of diverse backgrounds of all sorts. It's a weekend of acceptance and creativity, a celebration of our imaginations, variations, and common wish to play with our imaginations and have some fun.
The roleplaying crowd was mostly a middle-aged crowd, though I had several people in their twenties and a great player in middle school. My games mostly drew men, and only one had participants of other than European ancestry. Roleplaying at Dragon Con seems to have stabilized at about the same number year to year, filling half a dozen or so conference rooms with several score people coming to play in each time slot. Ongoing Campaign Games, mostly AD&D, draw about half the players, and Shadowrun gamers have their own conference room and schedule. Some players, like myself, came to the convention for games most of the time, but at least half of them were popping in for only a game or two in the weekend, spending the rest of their time enjoying other venues as well.
Less populous but present games other than the big ones and my own HeroQuest scenarios included Dresden Files, Call of Cthulhu, Conan, and Fudge. There were others, but I didn't get to hear them all mentioned before I was sent off with my own group each session. Players were enthusiastic, and GMs, even on Monday when we were all tired, were delighted to be able to run their games and spun tales of wonder and fun all around me over the course of the weekend. Dragon Con is not one of the largest RPG gatherings, but it provides a reliable setting for gamers from all across the Southeastern USA and beyond to come together to enjoy their hobby and one another.
And it takes place in the biggest party of Labor Day, so next year, come on down, y'all!
Have fun!
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Upcoming at Dragon Con
Dragon Con is coming up on September 2 - 5. I'll be running HeroQuest games all day Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. My schedule is below.
If anyone wants to come by or come play, it would be fun to meet in person. I always get so many ideas when I run games at conventions since I am exposed to new people, questions, and manners of play. Come have some fun in Atlanta!
If anyone wants to come by or come play, it would be fun to meet in person. I always get so many ideas when I run games at conventions since I am exposed to new people, questions, and manners of play. Come have some fun in Atlanta!
Event Title: Descent into the Depths
Saturday 9 am & Sunday 1 pm
Word has reached them Golden Emperor of Kralorela of a serious bookkeeping error in the Underworld, one that has unjustly condemned one of his most important officials to death and punishment. Go now and bring him back!
Event Title: The Lake Murders
Saturday 1 pm & Sunday 6 pm
Everyone’s heard about the grisly murders in the Lake District. Now they’re your case, but glamour and death do not make for pleasant work.
Event Title: Hunting Elephants
Saturday 6 pm & Monday 9 am
Seek out fabled Mount Ivory, said to lie deep in the jungles of the far south. Its ancient line of monks know secrets of martial arts and magic. Their students can gain great fame!
Event Title: The Emperor’s Ships of the Great Fog
Sunday 9 am & Monday 1 pm
The great imperial fleet patrols the misty shoreline of Kralorela and sometimes much farther out into the deep and mysterious sea fog.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Gen Con 2011
I'm just back from a long weekend in Indianapolis, Indiana, attending Gen Con, an awesome annual gathering of tens of thousands of gamers. I've been attending Gen Con on and off, mostly on, since the late 70s, and it's changed over the years, of course, but remains great fun and an important part of my games and education work.
Gen Con is huge. Somewhere around thirty thousand people attend over the course of four days. Events and exhibition halls filled the entire Indianapolis Convention Center and spill over into six or more neighboring hotels. The dealer's hall and the art show occupied the entirety of one of two cavernous spaces, while the other was filled with board, card, and war gamers. Roleplaying and the LARP events were mostly in the smaller hotel meeting rooms, which cut down on distracting noise.
Gen Con began on Thursday, but Trade Day, which for a small extra ticket price featured game demos and discussions of games in classrooms and libraries, preceded it. It seems to be aimed at educators and store owners. I had planned to attend this extra day, but a friend's illness prevented me from arriving in time. I hope to be there next year!
I haven't made it to Gen Con for several years, so I was struck, anecdotally of course, by some demographic shifts. There were more families and kids of all ages, and there were more activities for non-gamer spouses, including many crafts, and for kids, ranging from LEGOs to boffer wars to puzzles. There were more women and girls everywhere, involved in all aspects of the hobby, and there were more women running games.
My hotel, the Westin, was the home base for anime at Gen Con, which I had visited with my daughter in the past. While anime and manga hadn't taken over much more space, the convention itself had more anime enthusiasts than ever, and there was more costuming in general. Eager teens continue to inject their energy and youth into the hobby, as more and more of them seem to be also enjoying the gaming, and many gamers dabble in anime and manga as well. While still small, there were more people of color at Gen Con this year, and I was especially struck by significant numbers of Latino players.
My game focus, of course, was roleplaying, and this was dominated at the con by Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder. Wizards of the Coast was promoting its Neverwinter setting, though as Michael Tresca has noted, Pathfinder is now more successful than D&D. Other popular RPGs were 7th Sea, Call of Cthulhu, Hackmaster, Hero, Legend of the Five Rings, Shadowrun, and Star Wars, and there were dozens of RPGs with a game or two. I ran a two-part HeroQuest tournament, set in a region of Glorantha that I have been developing, and a one-hour introduction to the same game. For every session I had players, some of whom had never played before and left having had some fun!
A highlight of the convention was running a Games and Education seminar on Saturday afternoon. It was well attended by about thirty teachers, parents, and game designers. We varied in our schools, levels, subjects taught, games enjoyed, and game use. There were several new teachers, which is very exciting. We discussed issues with convincing administrators and parents, implementing games of various kinds, and a few specific games like Pay Day for financial literacy and Forbidden Island as a cooperative game. It was a fascinating, wide-ranging conversation, and we decided to continue and open it to others with a Facebook page. Thanks, Bruce! I plan to post some of my materials as soon as I finish this blog entry.
Finally, I picked up a couple titles from MacFarland Books, an independent academic publisher. I'll write reviews of Gaming as Culture and The Functions of Role-Playing Games as I finish them. I also bought a copy of Shannon Appelcline's Designers and Dungeons from Mongoose Games, a weighty tome on the history of the game industry. David Niecikowski and I met face to face for the first time, and he was gracious enough to give me a copy of his latest project, Game Design in the Classroom. I certainly have my reading material for the next few months! I'll share what I discover.
All in all, Gen Con was a blast! It's always a pleasure to see so many game enthusiasts gather in one place, and this year it continued to be a diverse and delightful experience.
Paideia School is about to start up for another school year, and I have Dragon Con here in Atlanta over Labor Day weekend, so I'll be mighty busy for a while, but as I have indicated, there's plenty to discuss here, so I'll be back soon.
Have fun!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Planning for Gen Con
My summer camp games have ended, and while I'm planning for the coming school year and my own weekend game with my regular group of adult gamers, my game-brain is working on Gen Con. I'll be offering a few Heroquest scenarios, including a short one just to introduce the game mechanics, and I will also have a Games and Education seminar on Saturday, August 6, at 1 pm in the afternoon. I'll bring my ideas and information, and I hope many other people will share their insights as well. Blogs and online chats (like this one) are all well and good, but there's nothing like the insights that occur when we get together face to face.
It would be great fun to meet anyone interested in talking games and education, whether at the seminar or otherwise during the convention!
David
It would be great fun to meet anyone interested in talking games and education, whether at the seminar or otherwise during the convention!
David
Monday, July 11, 2011
Summer Camp
I'm back from some early summer traveling and now leading a morning activity at my school's middle school summer camp called "Games for the Imaginative Mind." We may get into some game design and such or some writing later this week or next week, but the kids mostly want to play in a game. I have four boys and two girls, and I started them out nominating ideas for genres and settings.
One lad, who also likes to write, came up with high fantasy and zombie apocalypse right off the bat. There was an extended discussion of location, elements, and possible characters, and then I opened it up for a vote. The quietest participant, one of the girls, nominated zombie apocalypse, and everyone agreed that this idea interested them the most. We settled on World War II Sicily for our location, and they set to work on characters.
I said characters could be anyone form anywhere in the world that fit the early forties. We ended up with a local mafia don, his main lieutenant, a Canadian doctor, a Belgian pastry chef, a local auto enthusiast, and an expat Japanese baseball star. Wow. Thrown together by wartime circumstance, they find themselves together in Licata, on the southern coast of Sicily, on Wednesday, August 4, 1943. The last elements of the Third Infantry pull out for the north suddenly, leaving the locals to get back to their normal lives. The doctor has a badly mauled toddler and his mother at her home, and the Don seems to be in the first moments of a turf war with his old rivals. Where did that little kid go?
It's fun. They're creating up a storm, co-leading the game with me in wonderful ways. As one of them said early on, "We could write this as a book by the end of the week!" It does all lead me to take a look at how to add more of this kind of thing to my school-year writing program.
Definitely, to be continued!
David
One lad, who also likes to write, came up with high fantasy and zombie apocalypse right off the bat. There was an extended discussion of location, elements, and possible characters, and then I opened it up for a vote. The quietest participant, one of the girls, nominated zombie apocalypse, and everyone agreed that this idea interested them the most. We settled on World War II Sicily for our location, and they set to work on characters.
I said characters could be anyone form anywhere in the world that fit the early forties. We ended up with a local mafia don, his main lieutenant, a Canadian doctor, a Belgian pastry chef, a local auto enthusiast, and an expat Japanese baseball star. Wow. Thrown together by wartime circumstance, they find themselves together in Licata, on the southern coast of Sicily, on Wednesday, August 4, 1943. The last elements of the Third Infantry pull out for the north suddenly, leaving the locals to get back to their normal lives. The doctor has a badly mauled toddler and his mother at her home, and the Don seems to be in the first moments of a turf war with his old rivals. Where did that little kid go?
It's fun. They're creating up a storm, co-leading the game with me in wonderful ways. As one of them said early on, "We could write this as a book by the end of the week!" It does all lead me to take a look at how to add more of this kind of thing to my school-year writing program.
Definitely, to be continued!
David
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Long Time No See!
It's taken me longer to get back to this blog than I would have expected or wished, but I should have more to say in the coming months than in the last several. I'm working with several game publishers once again, and I will be attending Gen Con in Indianapolis and Dragon Con in Atlanta this summer, where I plan to play games, meet with members of the game industry, and, hopefully, have a chance to meet some of you. I'll be running games, some short and introductory for only an hour and some for a full three or four hours, at both conventions. I'll also be speaking about games and education at Gen Con, at one in the afternoon on Saturday, August 6.
My ongoing classroom game, Tut, a simulation of life in the court of King Tutankhamun, has just ended with a new regent, several assassinations, and a new military coalition. The kids have enjoyed it very much and are sorry to see it come to a conclusion. Tomorrow (Monday) we are spending an hour on debrief, when we will share some of the many story lines and reveal secrets.
My Friday afterschool game, set in the world of Glorantha, ends this coming Friday, also our last day of school, so it will be a fun way to see many of my gamer-students one more time. I will be running a two-week roleplaying game of some kind as part of my school's new summer camp for middle schoolers. I'll let you know how that goes.
In less than a fortnight, I'm leading a group of high school students to China for three weeks. In many ways, it reminds me of planning a campaign and gathering a party of adventurers!
Thanks, Bill, for the nudge!
David
My ongoing classroom game, Tut, a simulation of life in the court of King Tutankhamun, has just ended with a new regent, several assassinations, and a new military coalition. The kids have enjoyed it very much and are sorry to see it come to a conclusion. Tomorrow (Monday) we are spending an hour on debrief, when we will share some of the many story lines and reveal secrets.
My Friday afterschool game, set in the world of Glorantha, ends this coming Friday, also our last day of school, so it will be a fun way to see many of my gamer-students one more time. I will be running a two-week roleplaying game of some kind as part of my school's new summer camp for middle schoolers. I'll let you know how that goes.
In less than a fortnight, I'm leading a group of high school students to China for three weeks. In many ways, it reminds me of planning a campaign and gathering a party of adventurers!
Thanks, Bill, for the nudge!
David
Friday, February 18, 2011
Jane McGonigal
It's been a bit since I posted. You may have heard or seen her speak in the last year, but I've just discovered Jane McGonigal on TED and on NPR's "Science Friday". Her research and work concentrate on online games, but her ideas and optimism apply to tabletop role playing games as well, in fact, to any kind of game.
Dr. McGonigal is thinking big, and her work is big too, but her ideas also apply to many of the aspects of gaming, learning, and friendship that are near and dear to my heart. She describes four primary traits that occur in gamers.
• Urgent Optimism - "the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success"
• Weaving a Tight Social Fabric - It takes trust to play a game with someone.
• Blissful Productivity - "We're happier working hard."
• Epic Meaning - attachment to something much larger than ourselves.
This results in "Super-Empowered Hopeful Individuals." I certainly know exceptions to these traits and results, but I think she's on to something, and her research backs her up.
Dr. McGonigal goes on to call for more gaming in our lives, six or so hours per week, in order to develop the skills and attitudes to change the world. I think her ideas are inspiring.
What do you think?
Have fun!
Dr. McGonigal is thinking big, and her work is big too, but her ideas also apply to many of the aspects of gaming, learning, and friendship that are near and dear to my heart. She describes four primary traits that occur in gamers.
• Urgent Optimism - "the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success"
• Weaving a Tight Social Fabric - It takes trust to play a game with someone.
• Blissful Productivity - "We're happier working hard."
• Epic Meaning - attachment to something much larger than ourselves.
This results in "Super-Empowered Hopeful Individuals." I certainly know exceptions to these traits and results, but I think she's on to something, and her research backs her up.
Dr. McGonigal goes on to call for more gaming in our lives, six or so hours per week, in order to develop the skills and attitudes to change the world. I think her ideas are inspiring.
What do you think?
Have fun!
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Brochures & Links
Just a brief note this time but a good one! I have all four of my GAMA brochures upload, and you can access them below.
Brochure One - Nuts & Bolts
Brochure Two - Language Arts & Literature
Brochure Three - History & Social Studies
Brochure Four - Math & Science
I also want to share a link to a post on Bill Walton's Escapist blog. He in turn has links to two articles and uses them to point both the miraculous creativity of role playing and its mundane, safe nature. Thanks, Bill, for once again infusing the conversation with common sense!
Have fun, everyone!
David
Brochure One - Nuts & Bolts
Brochure Two - Language Arts & Literature
Brochure Three - History & Social Studies
Brochure Four - Math & Science
I also want to share a link to a post on Bill Walton's Escapist blog. He in turn has links to two articles and uses them to point both the miraculous creativity of role playing and its mundane, safe nature. Thanks, Bill, for once again infusing the conversation with common sense!
Have fun, everyone!
David
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