This Is How We Roll
by Rosiee Thor
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Pub Date Sep 16 2025 | Archive Date Not set
Page Street Publishing | Page Street YA
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Description
Your friends gather around the table, character sheets at the ready. You dive into the fantasy: a dark dungeon crawling with enemies, the journey promising wealth or ruin, victory or defeat. Your party forges onward: roll Perception. . . . roll Stealth. . . . But not every question can be answered by the dice.
Decisions like when to trust, how to love, and who we are can’t be outsourced to a D20. We don’t get skill modifiers in real life—and we definitely don’t get fireball—but that doesn’t mean we can’t still find ways to access magic in our day-to-day.
From exploring gender identity with an oath-bound paladin to playing out an in-game romance with your best friend, tabletop gaming paves the way for new relationships and shows us the richness of the worlds we inhabit, both fictional and real.
Within these pages, adventure awaits—but first, it’s time to roll for Initiative.
Advance Praise
“Equal parts heartwarming and hilarious, poignant and passionate. A must-have for fans of TTRPGs and stories of joyful queer discovery.”—Becca Coffindaffer, Critical Role: Stories Untold
“A celebration of queer joy and visibility in tabletop gaming.”—Sarah Glenn Marsh, contributing author of Critical Role’s Vox Machina: Stories Untold
“A standout anthology full of humor, heart, and vivid characters (both playable and otherwise). A must-read for any tabletop gamer!”—Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls
"This is How We Roll brings so much to the table—unforgettable characters from your favorite authors, adventures of the fantastical and heart-fluttering variety, and most importantly the unique queer joy of gaming together. You definitely want to join this adventuring party."—Christen Randall, national bestselling author of The No-Girlfriend Rule
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9798890033086 |
| PRICE | $18.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 320 |
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Featured Reviews
Mo M, Reviewer
This was a wonderful anthology full of a variety of stories that showed the multitude of ways that Dungeons and Dragons provides a safe space for people. While it mainly focuses on queer people and the ways they find a queer-accepting world in the game, use the game as a way to explore themselves, and more, it also highlights how the game brings people together, helps people with their anxiety, brings them out of depressions. It's just such a wholesome view of the game and highlights why people love it so much and why it is so important to people.
There's a really interesting array of identities within the anthology. I was pleased to see a handful of ace and aro rep and really related to some of those writings as an aroace person myself. Andrew Joseph White's story of a young trans man reconnecting with his father through the game was incredibly poignant. There were no misses here.
This is How We Roll is necessary reading for any Dungeons and Dragons fan, but especially those who found a soft landing space in the Forgotten Realms.
Paolo R, Reviewer
Authors I read and loved united in this great anthology and wrote some of the most captivating tales I have ever read! Loved this to bits.
Tabatha P, Reviewer
This is a fun anthology of various stories told around a Table Top Role Playing Game table from various people and various points of view. It is fun, obviously, and focuses not only just on the game, but the people who play it. Told from what appears to be several age groups, although most appear to be high school/college ages, you get a window into the lives of the players, how they play the game, and the found family that gaming has brough to their lives. A must read for any DND or TTRPG player!
Em B, Reviewer
This is How We Roll features 12 short stories by your favorite queer fantasy young adult authors. All of these stories show the importance of role playing games on teens and how that impacts identity.
These stories were so cute and wholesome and sometimes sad but also so important. I am so thankful to have gotten to read this and I truly believe that this book will change teens lives and is something I wish I had growing up.
Teece B, Reviewer
Rating 4.5 of 5
Thank you to NetGalley and Page Street Publishing for this advanced copy in exchange for a review! All opinions are my own.
I loved this anthology so much. It was so sweet and tender at moments, funny at others, and bittersweet at other parts too. The way these authors weave unique stories and integrate tabletop RPG in their own ways is just so fantastic. It felt like we were getting double the stories with a story embedded in a story.
I’m absolutely blown away by some of these. My favorite was Andrew Joseph White’s story of a cross generational campaign that changed lives. It was such a wonderful read.
Absolutely loved this anthology.
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