{"id":1246,"date":"2013-10-26T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2013-10-26T10:04:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T17:04:01","slug":"talking-with-nicholas-mizer-kickstarter-roleplaying-games-and-dissertations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"Talking with Nicholas Mizer: Kickstarter, Roleplaying Games, and Dissertations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Mizer is a doctoral student in the Anthropology Department at Texas A&M. His research has looked at storytelling, play and modernity in roleplaying games \u2013 topics I\u2019ve also been looking at from a literacies and education perspective. I talked with Nicholas about his current research and about his Kickstarter<\/a> to fund parts of his dissertation research. Called \u201cThe Greatest Unreality: Story, Play, and Imagination in D&D,\u201d this Kickstarter allows gamers and a general audience a bit more of a behind-the-scenes look at how the dissertation-sausage is made: backers get a copy of his final dissertation, gaming materials, and regular updates from Nicholas. Please consider backing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below, we discuss Nicholas\u2019s Kickstarter, his research topic, and RPG gaming trends. Links to things we discuss follow.
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