Tabletop Office Hours with Dr. Emily Friedman - Week 12: Awards in TTRPG
Channel: Critical Prof
Date: 2023-11-01

This fall, as I have for the last several years, I am teaching a college course on Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Narratives. www.ecfriedman.com/gamecourse  My students play games in and out of class, watch Actual Plays, do scholarly reading and research, talk to all kind of folks involved in TTRPGs, and ultimately, get to design their own final "UnEssays."

It's an active learning classroom, so when students are absent, there's no lecture to go back and watch. So in the past, I've come home, recorded short recaps, & posted them on this channel. My students didn't use them much, but many of my fellow educators (and awesome TTRPG nerds) did.

This time, I'm trying something a little different: I'll be recording my recaps live (usually about 15-20 minutes), and answering any questions I've gotten on my socials, in comments, or from chat.

Today I'll be recapping our discussion of Awards in TTRPG -- why they proliferate, and what work they do.