My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...

I talk about the Indonesian language, why it's surprisingly easy for English speakers to pick up, and how we use it to seamlessly codswitch during our TTRPG sessions.

Defy the Gods makes good on its own epithet of “Queer Sword & Sorcery.”

Netrunner is a two-player asymmetric card game set in a dystopian future where four megacorporations control almost every aspect of daily life. Legendary hackers known as “runners” aim to fight […]

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

A cannibalistic and romantic OSR game