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The first time Tony Ford played Dungeons & Dragons, he was a wiry Black kid who had never seen the inside of a prison. His mother, a police officer in Detroit, had quit the force and moved the family to West Texas. To Ford, it seemed like a different world. Strangers talked fu ...

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There is a game called Dungeons & Dragons that has been popular for decades all around the world. It is a highly immersive role playing game that pulls its players deep into the storyline; The players basically become the characters in the story. The vast majority of “D&D” pla ...

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychology professor Christopher J. Ferguson about his newly published academic paper, "Are Orcs Racist? Dungeons and Dragons, Ethnocentrism, Anxiety, and the Depiction of 'Evil' Monsters"