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Can You Survive the Black Death?: Simulating Pandemic Disease and Its Impact in a College Classroom Game

by bgacademics | Feb 12, 2025 | Issue 2

Board Game Academics, March 2025Published in Vol 2.Presented at NASAGA 2024, Atlanta, GADOI: https://doi.org/10.70380/65yuc6jlt Dr. Franklin Rausch, Mr. Jackson Bolt, Ms. Jessi Patton, Ms. Cassandra RollinsLander University To understand pandemics, it is necessary to...

Orientalist misadventures: An examination of monk class narratives and mechanics in Dungeons and Dragons, 1975-2024

by bgacademics | Feb 12, 2025 | Issue 2

Board Game Academics, March 2025 Published in Vol 2.DOI: https://doi.org/10.70380/3czjhl8t1 Katherine Dickey and Joshua Coslar ABSTRACT The central question that this paper evaluates is how the player class of monk in the popular fantasy game Dungeons and Dragons...

Board Games as a Framework for Computer Science Education

by bgacademics | Feb 12, 2025 | Issue 2

Board Game Academics, March 2025 Published in Vol 2.DOI: https://doi.org/10.70380/vmrgi25po. Stephen HallComputer Science & Engineering LibrarianUniversity of Pennsylvania INTRODUCTION I was a gamer long before I was a programmer. A decade before I wrote my first...

Critical Role’s Candela Obscura: World Building to Build a Better World

by bgacademics | Feb 12, 2025 | Issue 2

Board Game Academics, March 2025 Published in Vol 2.DOI: https://doi.org/10.70380/209g985rv Victoria SmurthwaiteKutztown University Critical Role’s 2023 game Candela Obscura strives to ensure that all players will feel welcomed within gameplay despite the challenges...

Roll Insight: Teaching Undergraduate Philosophy through TTRPGs

by bgacademics | Feb 12, 2025 | Issue 2

Board Game Academics, March 2025 Published in Vol 2.DOI: https://doi.org/10.70380/ifbd9m2ip Archie Fields IIIUniversity of Calgary I. INTRODUCTION It is clear that tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) are useful pedagogical tools in a variety of educational contexts...

A Critical Role: Academic Success Advisors Leveraging Tabletop Gaming and Gamification in the Classroom for Academic Probation Students

by bgacademics | Feb 12, 2025 | Issue 2

Board Game Academics, March 2025 Published in Vol 2.DOI: https://doi.org/10.70380/ldbhu2mqi Sean Milligan, David Runge, and Andrew BuchmannSUNY Oswego INTRODUCTION The State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego utilizes Academic Success Advisors serving first-year...

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  • Can You Survive the Black Death?: Simulating Pandemic Disease and Its Impact in a College Classroom Game
  • Orientalist misadventures: An examination of monk class narratives and mechanics in Dungeons and Dragons, 1975-2024
  • Board Games as a Framework for Computer Science Education
  • Critical Role’s Candela Obscura: World Building to Build a Better World
  • Roll Insight: Teaching Undergraduate Philosophy through TTRPGs
  • A Critical Role: Academic Success Advisors Leveraging Tabletop Gaming and Gamification in the Classroom for Academic Probation Students

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