CAR-PGa Newsletter July 2018

CAR-PGa NEWSLETTER

Vol. 27, No. 7

An international network of researchers into all aspects of role-playing games

July 2018

David Millians, Editor

Paideia School, 1509 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia 30307 USA

ARTICLES

NEW MATERIAL

FROM XXX

Last Name, First Name. (Date) Title. Source. (online?) Link. Summary. x pages.

FROM BILL WALTON

Leporati, Gregory (2018 June 8) Build morale by slaying monsters after work. www.engadget.com/amp/2018/06/08/dungeons-and-dragons-corporate-team-building-timm-woods. Creating collaborative work places.

FROM DAVID MILLIANS

Chalk, Alex (2018 ) A Chronology of Dungeons & Dragons in Popular Media. analoggamestudies.org/2018/06/telling-stories-of-dungeons-dragons-a-chronology-of-representations-of-dd-play. From suspicion to laughter to actual play.

divergentdata (2018 June 1) Fraction of Total Videogame Sales by Genre. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8nrndc/fraction_of_total_videogame_sales_by_genre_oc. Business date from 1980 to 2015.

Loebenberg, Abby (2018 June 3) Sneak Attack Anthropology: Experiences with Games in the College Classroom. analoggamestudies.org/2018/06/sneak-attack-anthropology-experiences-with-games-in-the-college-classroom. Using GURPS sessions to teach anthropological writing and analysis.

Wieland, Rob (2018 June 6) The “DnD Grandma” Shows You’re Never Too Old to Start Slaying Orcs. geekandsundry.com/the-dnd-grandma-shows-youre-never-too-old-to-start-slaying-orcs. The adventures of the unretiring Millie the Halfling Lore Bard on Twitter.

CALENDAR

New listings this month were provided by Paul Cardwell, others are urged to submit information. If you attend a convention, be sure and check the conventions table and let us have a copy of the fliers (or at very least the when, what, where, and contact information) for upcoming conventions available there. CAR-PGa is international, so this includes anywhere in the world.

Dates, precise venue, contacts' URLs or phone numbers, and other information, where missing from this list, would be particularly appreciated.

"[LARP]" means only LARP events as many RPG cons include at least some LARP, as likewise applies to the mention of specific game systems. The same bracketed information applies as well to game systems when the con will have only those games present.

In an attempt to get more face-to-face meetings of the membership, we list who will be going to what convention, if they will tell us. Get this type of information in at least two months before the convention itself, so we can run it at least once. Support your local cons by helping in the staff. It is a good way to promote RPG and you generally get in free for the brief time spent helping.

A review of any attended convention afterwards for the Newsletter would be appreciated too. These reviews should include demographic data such as attendance, percentage male/female, white/ethnic minorities (or what- ever is the majority/white/others), games in addition to tabletop RPG, and more subjective matters such as unusual events, quality of games and dealers' room, encouragement of new gamers, and whatever seems worth reporting. We need to work to restore CAR-PGa's reputation as the media's go-to on gamer demographics, especially since the media are still citing a study that cut off all those over 35 - at a time when that was the median age of gamers - it is closer to 40 now - which indicates we also need to work on recruiting younger players, although some increase in college age players at conventions has been noted.

Conventions are currently being compiled by archivist Paul Cardwell, 1127 Cedar, Bonham, TX 75418 or plcardwell@gmail.com, so send them there.

                                                             

FROM PAUL

© Copyright 2018 by the Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games (CAR-PGa), ISSN 1071 7129. The CAR-PGa Newsletter is a monthly publication. For more information contact David Millians, Editor, Paideia School, 1509 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia 30307 USA, phone (404) 808-1070, fax (404) 377-3491, e-mail millians.david@paideiaschool.org. Back issues are available. Contributions of material from the membership are urged, and the byline is responsible for content. Deadline is the last weekday of the month, email preferred. Permission is granted to copy anything in the Newsletter, provided we get a credit line in the publication copying it, and it doesn't have someone else's copyright on it. Information, including details on joining CAR-PGa, can be obtained on the Internet at car-pga.org.