The story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gamingGeek culture has never been more mainstream than it is now with the everincreasing popularity of events like Comic Con transmedia franchising of the Marvel Cinematic Universe market dominance of video and computer games and the resurgence of board games such as Settlers of Catan and roleplaying games like Dungeons ampampampamp Dragons. Yet even while the comic book and hobby shops where the above are consumed today are seeing an influx of BIPOC gamers they remain overwhelmingly white male and heterosexual. The Privilege of Play contends that in order to understand geek identitys exclusionary tendencies we need to know the history of the overwhelmingly white communities of tabletop gaming hobbyists that preceded it.