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Caroline Berg has held many interesting jobs, most recently holding the title of Senior Quest Designer on an MMORPG.

When not working on video games, she makes narrative heavy indie board games and RPGs.

Many of her games are based on Sci-Fi stories, fairy tales, mythology, and history. Which are, not surprisingly, her favorite genres to read. This can be seen with her board games Idunn's Apples; and Everything Except Air, a game about making it back to your spaceship after being abandoned on Mars. This is also reflected in her roleplaying games, such as the DramaSystem series pitch The Last Days of the Library, based on the second burning of the Library of Alexandria; the Fiasco playset Relative Gods, based on ancient Sumerian mythology; a ...more

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Recognizing Racism in Myths and Fairy Tales

I love fairy tales, mythology, epic fantasy stories. But many of them are, at their heart, very racist. And sometimes it is best to take a step back, look at the tales from a different perspective, and realize that what happens in them is not OK.

There is a huge problem in many tales where they equate black with all that is bad, ugly, and terrible in the world. Villains, and often only villains, a Read more of this blog post »

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Published on June 12, 2020 15:21 • Tags: fairy-tales, myths, racism

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Sacred Stories: Wisdom from World Religions
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Project Hail Mary

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For Whom the Belle Tolls

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“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
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