User:Acrider/Reacting to the Past

Reacting to the Past is a series of educational role-playing games originally developed at Barnard College. These reacting games have the following attributes:


 * Real historical setting
 * Rich texts
 * Multiple class meetings
 * Roles with well-developed characters
 * Victory objectives
 * Indeterminacy
 * Reading, writing, and speaking
 * Narrative structure with drama
 * Possibility of alternate historical outcomes
 * Accessibility to non-specialists

Reacting to the Past games might also include the following common elements:


 * Factions
 * Elements of secrecy
 * Opening vignettes
 * Central texts

History
The Reacting to the Past series began as...