Book

Playing at the World

A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures, from Chess to Role-Playing Games

Jon Peterson

2012

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Soldier gamepieces and landscape and infrastructure tiles, for a board game.

Shall We Play a Game?

The route of war-based boardgames from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement.

by Angela Chen, Clara Collier, Jon Peterson via Asterisk on April 22, 2026

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