Car News

Here are three brief RPG advocacy stories that made their way to my
inbox recently:

- A digital art gallery in New York City is currently featuring an
exhibit of some of the works of Ottowa artist Mike Turney, who creates
maps for tabletop fantasy roleplaying games:

"At an exhibit Friday, July 16, to Thursday, July 29, in New York
City, the SoHo Gallery of Digital Art will include maps Tumey created
for fantasy roleplaying board games. A total of about 48 fantasy game
maps will be on display on large, flat screen televisions. Tumey plans
to attend the exhibit.

"I've never had my work on display like this before," Tumey noted.

Read the full article here - http://mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/display.php?id=408768

- Here's an RPG-positive piece about a game store in Alaska - Kitsap
board, card gamers find local havens for imaginative play:

"Instead of sitting in front of a television or PC monitor, Larsen
said the endless supply of the imagination is why he enjoys role-
playing games. On Fridays, he typically stays at Discordia from 6 p.m.
to midnight.

"There's just nothing like sitting at a table with a group of friends,
mocking them," Larsen said jokingly as he glanced around the table at
his fellow gamers.

Besides mocking friends, Boutet said playing table-top games is also a
good way to build communication skills. Lonely player stereotypes are
reinforced with video games more than table-top games, and things such
as X-Box Live, which is played over the internet but is not the same
as face-to-face interaction.

Read the full article here - http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/nkh/entertainment/98363239.html

- Back in April, "Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks" author Ethan
Gilsdorf wrote an excellent article for the Christian Science Monitor
on the benefits of tabletop RPGs, and that same piece is now being
carried by Psychology Today, with a new title: "Real-Life
Roleplaying."

Read the full article here - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/geek-pride/201007/real-life-role-playing

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