[CAR-PGa] Re: academic books about RPG

Thanks for the shout out Ted! I'm posting excerpts from my book all
this week in honor of Speak Out With Your Geek Out:

* The Serious Business of Gaming:
http://www.examiner.com/rpg-in-national/speak-out-with-your-geek-out-the-serious-business-of-gaming
* My gaming history from Red Box to Third Edition:
http://www.examiner.com/rpg-in-national/speak-out-with-your-geek-out-my-gaming-history-from-red-box-to-third-edition


On Sep 11, 5:28 pm, Ted Skirvin <tedskir...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In the last newsletter David Millians indicated he had purchased a
> book entitled Gaming as Culture and would write a book review for the
> newsletter. I had posted about that book about a year ago in this
> email list. I'm impressed that he will take on the task since it is a
> collection of essays. Any review would probably be pretty long.
>
> The company that published that book has several others that we should
> take note of. If several of you were to read these books and submit
> reviews to the newsletter, we'd have plenty of newsletter material for
> many months. McFarland is the publisher(www.mcfarlandpub.com). Here
> are the other applicable books:
>
> The Functions of Role-Playing Games
> by Sarah Lynne Bowman
>
> The Creation of Narrative in Tabletop Role-Playing Games
> by Jennifer Grouling Cover
>
> The Fantasy Role-Playing Game
> by Daniel Mackay
>
> The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games
> by Michael J. Tresca (Hey, wait a minute. That name sound familiar)
>
> We often have a lack of material for the newsletter. This is one way
> to help with that problem.
>
> Ted

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