The Games! They’re Alive!
Living Games, which started in 2014 at the NYU Game Center, is “a conference devoted to discussing all aspects of live action role-playing (larp) theory and practice.”
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The Shrine of the Cobbler – Spot Check 27
In which I talk about Gary Con, 330 Center Street, and explain a folktale to Rhialto the Marvelous. Ethan Gilsdorf’s…
(Sometimes) Never Split the Party
It’s one of the oldest and most common maxims in gaming, but why? Erving Goffman helps me understand why we…
The Life Well Played – Spot Check 23
by NICK MIZER Spot Check returns! In this episode I talk about the role of conventions in gaming culture, the…
Blues Riffs and Session Pacing: Spot Check 22
by NICK MIZER In this episode of Spot Check I talk about how the Old School Renaissance in tabletop gaming…
The Geek Anthropologist 