"In Across the Board, tabletop game aficionado Tim Clare takes us through that history and across those civilizations. We learn how the same games emerge over and over and how they've evolved and spread, as well as about the contemporary culture of gaming. With rousing enthusiasm, Tim explores games as familiar to us as Monopoly or chess, as niche as Magic: The Gathering, and as unexpected as the Japanese poetry-matching card game karuta. We learn about games as recreation and as ritual, and above all, we see how they can be a way for us to come together--because of all the things that make us human, there's nothing quite so set up for connection as sharing a round of cards or the roll of a d20. Told with fantastic wit and great love for the subject, TimClare's Across the Board is a book for all of us, from the tic-tac-toe players to the dungeon masters and back again"--Provided by publisher.
