Jaclyn Lewis

After interviewing Lucas Zellers for this article, I was filled with evangelical zeal. Thoughtful engagement with 5e's structure! Scientific inquiry and accuracy! Conservationist principles built into the design! I hope I did the Book of Extinction justice, and I hope you are inspired by it for your own games and creations.

Use DND To Teach Biology and Conservationism With This Monster Manual Teachers, parents, and others are wondering how to teach biology in a fun way. The game of Dungeons & Dragons has already been used to teach social emotional learning, sign language, history, and more. Why not use D&D to teach biology and conservation? Mage Hand Press, creator of cus

The SQEEEEE!!! RPG is debuting today in an actual-play stream from 1-4 EST! This is a tabletop role-playing game about the emotional world of living in community, where we can fight big emotions like anxiety and depression and learn how to help each other along the way. I've had the honor of working on this game with Pax and Kitsch for the last several months, and Kitsch has put a TON of work towards the AP: part performance, part playtest, and all passion, this is going to become something truly amazing! Tune in at https://www.twitch.tv/goblinforge 💜

Highlights from this week: checking out the brand-new Education & Therapy conference nested in , getting to meet and chat with other folks who run TTRPGs for young players (and other game designers and other parents and other nerds and and and....), showing Tiny Dragon the Expo Hall (and the boffer swords), seeing my work at , celebrating our Ten-Year Gay-Aversary with and the rainbow sheep, seeing A Constructs Nature and in person, AND getting to present on q***r worldbuilding (and staying so long to chat with people after that I was late to my next session...an hour later). Truly a whirlwind, but I'm so glad I went!

In true TTRPG form, the Masks one-shot at WMU's LBGT Office became a two-shot. I've been wanting to run this system for so long, and it really delivered! I love teen-hero fiction, and everything about this game - from the GM moves customized for each Playbook to the mechanics of altering character sheets as the characters' identity is in flux - really works towards telling those kinds of stories (with very little effort). I feel like GMing PbtA games finally "clicked" for me; now I want to go back to MotW and see how it plays with a fresh perspective.