Emily Care Boss

Emily Care Boss is an Indie roleplaying game designer and publisher. She is the author of "Breaking the Ice", "Shooting the Moon" and "Under my Skin". She currently resides in Plainfield Massachusetts.

Boss graduated from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelors degree in Social Thought and Political Economy and masters degree in Forestry. She is currently a forestry consultant in the woodlands of western Massachusetts. Boss co-writes [http://www.fairgame-rpgs.com/ Fair Game] , with Meguey Baker a blog-style design and roleplaying theory journal. She is the founding owner of Black & Green Games.

A contributor to the role playing journal Push, Emily has designed role playing games and discussed role playing game theory since 1999. She organizes the JiffyCon series of indie roleplaying game mini-conventions in Massachusetts, and was a guest of honor in August 2007 at the Finnish role playing convention, Ropecon. Her new game of alien first contact, Sign in Stranger, is due out in 2009.

Boss and Vincent Baker are attributed as formulating the Lumpley Principle (a.k.a. Baker-Care or Baker-Boss Principle) which states "System (including but not limited to 'the rules') is defined as the means by which the group agrees to imagined events during play." Further development of the Lumpley Principle described player contributions as being assigned credibility by the other players in the game.

Roleplaying bibliography

*Breaking the Ice: A Game about Love, for Two
* [http://www.blackgreengames.com/stm.html Shooting the Moon] : All is fair in love and war.
* [http://www.blackgreengames.com/ums.html Under my Skin] : Who do you love?
* Push, New Thinking about Roleplaying

External links

* [http://www.blackgreengames.com/ Black & Green Games] , Boss's independent publishing company.
* [http://www.fairgame-rpgs.com/ Fair Game] , Boss's design and theory journal co-authored by Meguey Baker.
* [http://bleedingplay.wordpress.com/ Push] , a roleplaying periodical containing Boss's article, Collaborative Roleplaying: Reframing the Game
* [http://legion.bombshellstudios.com/2006/08/09/collaborative-roleplaying-games/ Legion's Construct] , a review of Collaborative Roleplaying: Reframing the Game by Michael Babbitt
* [http://goplaynow.org/ Play Collective] , a collective of Indie roleplaying game designers that Boss belongs to.
* [http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12397.phtml RPG.net] review of Breaking the Ice
* [http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=5 Indie Press Revolution's] Black & Green Games feature page.
* [http://www.thevoiceoftherevolution.com/index.php?post_id=199834 Voice of the Revolution Podcast] Interview with Emily Care Boss about Breaking the Ice, Shooting the Moon and Sign In Stranger