Category: Tabletop
-
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
-
#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
-
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…
-
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
-
Steal Away Jordan
Designer: Julia Bond EllingboePublisher: Stone Baby GamesRelease Year: 2007Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions; Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters; Politics/ ideology/ history; Robust Character Creation System; Set during the United States antebellum period, in Steal Away Jordan you work to live out the collective stories of enslaved people and their secret goals. interviews…
-
One Child’s Heart
Designer: Camdon WrightPublisher: Unicorn Motorcycle GamesRelease Year: 2020Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters; Robust Character Creation System; Take on the role of a child welfare professional participating in a new mental health care memory exploration experiment, the Central Limbic Engagement Recovery System, and support an imaginary child struggling with their life…
-
Blood Rage
Designer: Eric LangPublisher: Cool Mini or NotRelease Year: 2015Platform: TabletopGenre: FantasyTaxonomy: Development Ragnarök has come and it’s the end of the world. Playing as a Viking, you have one last chance to go down in glory and secure your place in Valhalla. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
-
Rising Sun
Designer: Eric LangPublisher: Cool Mini or NotRelease Year: 2018Platform: TabletopGenre: Board GameTaxonomy: Development Set in feudal Japan, Rising Sun presents the Kami’s attempt to gather sacred clans to reclaim the lands of Nippon and return to traditions. You play as an honorable Shogun who must lead one of the clans as you navigate through politics…
-
Ankh: Gods of Egypt
Designer: Eric LangPublisher: Cool Mini or NotRelease Year: 2021Platform: TabletopGenre: ActionTaxonomy: Development Ancient Egyptians once worshipped many gods but now they head towards a monotheistic society where the gods are fighting among themselves to be worshipped. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
-
Cyberpunk 2020
Designer: Mike PondsmithPublisher: R. Talsorian GamesRelease Year: 1988Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters; Robust Character Creation System; Set in the context of a dystopian future, a lack of government and police enforcement, and the presence of megacorporations fighting for power, you, as a cyberpunk, must fight to survive in this violent…