Alex Roberts (game designer)
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Alex Roberts is a Canadian tabletop role-playing game designer. Her games are typically GM-less and include romantic themes.
Games
Roberts made Star Crossed (Bully Pulpit Games), a game about forbidden romantic pairings, which won the 2019 Diana Jones Award.[1] She designed For the Queen (Evil Hat Productions), a GM-less storytelling card game that kicked off a genre of games called "Descended from the Queen."[2]
Roberts also did design work for Till the Last Gasp, a 2-player dueling game published by Critical Role's Darrington Press.[3][4] She wrote the game Hero Dog Saves Town for The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book.[5] She wrote the LARP Pop! about an internet forum for balloon fetishists in the anthology Honey & Hot Wax.[6]
Roberts was the host of the role-playing games podcast "Backstory" on the One Shot Podcast Network from 2016 to 2019.[7]
In game scholarship
Brittany N. Arde at the University of Cincinnati used Roberts' For the Queen in a psychological study on the influence of storytelling games on team building.[8]
References
- ^ "The 2019 Award". The Diana Jones Award. August 1, 2019.
- ^ D'Amato, James (March 13, 2023). "Pivot your D&D group to a different system built with role-play — not combat — in mind".
- ^ "Critical Role publisher announces two-player cinematic storytelling game". Dicebreaker. December 16, 2022.
- ^ "Critical Role Announces New Board Game". GAMING.
- ^ The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book. Edited by James D'Amato. Simon & Schuster, 2020.
- ^ Honey & Hot Wax. Edited by Sharang Biswas and Lucian Kahn. Pelgrane Press, 2020.
- ^ "Backstory".
- ^ Arde, Brittany N. Exploring the Influence of Collaborative Storytelling Games on Team Effectiveness. University of Cincinnati ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2022.