Category: RPG
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GODSEND: Agenda
Designer: Jerry D. GraysonPublisher: Khepera PublishingRelease Year: 2001Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development, Playable Black Characters In an alternate Earth, impacted by godlike aliens, there are six factions you can join as you ultimately examine the influence and impact you have on the world and on your own legacy and future. interviews and…
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You Will Destroy Something Beautiful
Designer: Samantha DayPublisher: itch.ioRelease Year: 2018Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Development Working collaboratively as a group, your team describes a beautiful thing, its location, and who you are as you also explain why you want to destroy the beautiful thing. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Dialect
Designer: Laura Simpson (co-designer)Publisher: Self PublishedRelease Year: 2018Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions; Development; Mechanics; politics/ideology/history Play as members of an isolated community to create words and phrases that reflect values, history, and culture as you emphasize storytelling and the evolution of language. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Wicked and Wise
Designer: Fertessa AllysePublisher: Weird Giraffe GamesRelease Year: 2022Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Development Play as a team of a Mouse and Dragon to fight over tricks, treasures, and coins as you compete to be crowned king of the caves. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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#Feminism: Additional Games
Designer: Jonaya Kemper (co-designer)Publisher: Pelgrane PressRelease Year: 2017Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Development Thirty-three nano games featuring contemporary feminist issues. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Lasgidi Rats
Designer: Kenechukwu Ogbuagu, Peter AttahPublisher: NIBCARDRelease Year: 2019Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions; Development A great famine has descended upon the rat kingdom. However, there is hope. You, a guardian, must lead the surviving rats to the homes of Lasgidians (humans of Lasgidi). interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Tidebreaker
Designer: Nick Butler Publisher: Self Published Release Year: 2022 Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters Step into the role of hyper-competent heroes to explore worlds, customize abilities, and engage in epic battles as you roleplay to solve problems and resolve conflict using diplomacy and persuasion skills. interviews and other media scholarship…
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The Witcher (RPG)
Designer: Cody Pondsmith, Lisa PondsmithPublisher: R. Talsorian GamesRelease Year: 2018Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters Set in the Witcher universe, during the events of Assassin of Kings, Wild Hunt, and the third Nilfgaardian War, this roleplaying game allows players to craft a backstory for their character in order to deal…
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S0urce C0de
Designer: Gabriel HicksPublisher: Self PublishedRelease Year: 2016Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-playingTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters Creating your own pathways, you focus on exploration and discovery as a member of an elite force in a universe where the number of planets is endless. Adventure follows. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Objectif
Designer: A.M. DarkePublisher: Self PublishedRelease Year: 2017Platform: Card GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Development; Intersectionality; Mechanics Showcasing an inclusive cast of hand-drawn characters across a spectrum of gender, culture, and race, Objectif has players competing to play a card that will match the description of a card that the Objectif Eye, or judge, has played. Players must…