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. In collaboration with Benjamin Rosenbaum, Alder invented the Belonging Outside Belonging system, which became a template for future designers' games. Her work is a topic of scholarship in the history of game design.