Avery Alder

Avery Alder
OccupationGame designer
Notable workMonsterhearts, The Quiet Year
AwardsIndie RPG Awards

Avery Alder is a Canadian tabletop role-playing game designer. She designs games with themes of LGBTQ self-discovery, community building, and post-apocalyptic survival.[1] In collaboration with Benjamin Rosenbaum, Alder invented the Belonging Outside Belonging system, which became a template for future designers' games.[2] Her work is a topic of scholarship in the history of game design.

  1. ^ Duffy, Owen (8 February 2017). "Monsterhearts: 'A lot of queer youth are made to feel monstrous by people around them'". The Guardian.
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