TABLETOP ACTIVISM
If Casual Games For Protest hasn’t caught on among protesters, it has drawn interest from other artists, academics and journalists. “I’ve run a bunch of indoor workshops myself, but overall the project worked more as a speculative design,” Paolo Pedercini says, adding, “I’ve been joking about a sequel titled Casual Games For Meetings, because that’s a lot of what I did in the last four years.” His pen-and-paper RPG Rules & Roberts riffs on the idea, blending fantasy quests with a 19th-century manual of parliamentary procedures. It “suffers from the same issue [as CGP]: a lot of people interested in the abstract idea, but very few actually playing it.”