, professor of History at Northern Michigan University and author of said Weimar game. He and I had a fascinating discussion about how the game came about, how it has changed over time, and why the label "the Weimar game" is really important.

If you are going to run Weimar, I would suggest you view this interview as an extention of the Instructor's Guide. It will give you a better sense of how to imagine the game and to respond to student concerns. But even if you won't ever play this particular game, Robbie has great things to say about the process of working with the Editorial Board and about thinking through hard questions as you write or run a game. And, in a world in which the bookshelves at Barnes and Nobles are filled with titles about the rise of authoritarianism, thinking about a game about how democracies work, and don't, is a good in itself.

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For years after I first played Mary Jane Treacy's Greenwich Village game, Judith Shapiro, the former president of Barnard College, called me Emma (for Emma Goldman) whenever she saw me. Our experience playing the game was that memorable.

A second edition of GV is now in the works. In this interview, I talked with Mary Jane about how she became a game author, what led her to invent Personal Influence Points, about her other games (Paterson and Argentina) and about what will be new in v. 2.0 of GV.

The informal tagline for this podcast is "Great Guests, a Pretty Good Host and Good Enough Sound." That last part is particularly appropriate for this episode. There was a short somewhere in the system and there's a bit of crackle now and then during the episode. Despite extensive editing, it's a little more obvious than I'd like at times. But Mary Jane was so interesting I decided to go live with the episode anyway. So--pretend you're a teenager listening to a baseball game on AM radio when there's occasional lightning in the area (and now you know just a bit more abo

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