(a.k.a. “Why You Should Encourage Your Kids To Play Board Games”)

 
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Intro Bits

  • The Franciscan Jedi
  • The Games Puritans Play

News

  • What We’ve Been Up To – Star Command
  • Conventioneering
    • MegaCon (Orlando, FL): the artist sketchbook, buttscratchers
    • MomoCon (Georgia Tech): anime-osity towards “attention-solicitors”, & the yaoi paddle phenomenon
  • New HGP Forums! (or click the Forums button at the top of the page)

Free Game of the Fortnight

  • Duplexity” (Jon Leistiko, www.invisible-city.com)

Shout Outs

Main Bit – Learning Disguised As Games

  • Geography
  • Simple Mathematics (arithmetic)
  • Not-So-Simple Mathematics (statistics & probability)
  • Economics
  • Political Science
  • History
  • Computer Programming
  • Are RPG’s education-worthy?

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