This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. It's the little ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...

For more than 30 years, Tom Tierney has been the pen behind some of the country's most popular paper doll books. The books feature celebrities like Joan Crawford, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, and ...