From Dungeons & Dragons and forward, role-playing games have dominated our imaginations and interests. New York Times bestselling author and award-winning game designer Matt Forbeck and writer, teacher, and podcaster Benjamin Riggs headline “Tabletop RPGs: Building Stories Together”, a talk about the positives and negatives of role-playing games and how ultimately, they bring us all together, at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha at 3:15 pm on Saturday, November 5.
Forbeck, author of The Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game: Playtest Rulebook and over thirty novels and countless games published to date. His projects have won a Peabody Award, a Scribe Award, 10 ENnies, and 17 Origins Awards. His latest work includes Biomutant, the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game, and the Shotguns & Sorcery 5E Sourcebook based on his novels. He lives in Beloit, WI, with his wife and a rotating cast of his college-age children. For more about him and his work, visit Forbeck.com.
After graduating from Boston University with degrees in history and English, Riggs moved to Egypt to teach. There he discovered the power and educational benefits of incorporating games into a classroom. Since then, he has taught in China, Japan, inner-city schools, and a Montessori school. In all, he continued to study first-hand the impact of games on the academic performance of his students. His podcast, Plot Points, is now entering its twelfth year. His work has appeared on Nerdist.com, The Unspeakable Oath, the nation’s premier horror gaming magazine, and on NPR. His articles on Geek & Sundry are frequently among the most-read and most-shared work on the site. He lives and teaches in Milwaukee with his son and wife Tara.
