
Gaming out race in Dungeons & Dragons
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Fantasy War Games and Race
Aaron Tramell is an assistant professor at UC Irvine and he edits a scholarly journal about quote analog games like D&D. He spent years studying the interplay between tabletop games and race. Aaron links the war gamers idea of historical accuracy to this adherence to all white histories. This becomes one of the big excuses of the fantasy war gaming community not adding more inclusive rules.
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