RPGs, tabletop, LARP and everything in between
So, this is a thing. I have talked about Accountability for the male members of Geek Culture here, before. I have on occasion named names, but even more frequently I have alluded to incidents without directly naming people. A lot of other women do this, too. While calling for accountability, we are not making sure… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #407 – Accountability
(I was out of range of the internet when these originally posted at the patreon. I apologize for the delay.) Ok, so we’ve talked about what GMs do and what triggered players do, but what about the other players? Being around someone who has been triggered can be very upsetting, particularly if you’re the one… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #403 – Emotional Safety in Gaming – Part 4: Tips for other Players
(I was out of internet-range when this originally posted. My apologies for the delay.) So far I’ve spoken mostly to what GMs should do to deal with a triggered player. However, what if you’re the triggered player, or if you as the GM get triggered. Some people feel as the GM that you may have… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #402 – Emotional Safety in Gaming: Part 3 – Tools for the Triggered
This is where I talk about tools other than the quick description of the pre-game talk and “Boundaries and Limits.” We’ll see how many posts it takes to cover these. I’m going to start with the X-card, created by John Stavropoulos, first. The X-card is a literal or metaphorical card that any player, including the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #401 – Emotional Safety in Gaming: Tools Part 2b
And as opposed to most of the time when I say “tools” I mean actual methods for coping with landmines and the unexpected, as opposed to calling someone a name. What I want to do is outline several methods for attempting to head-off or deal with triggers. The first is to have a talk with… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #400 – Emotional Safety in Games: Part 2a Tools – the Pre-Game Talk
No, not a review of the book chronicling Riot Grrrl culture, but instead, two game publishers sending out a call specifically for female-identified or other marginalized writers. Both Pelgrane Press and Green Ronin have put out calls for female contributors for their products. And I, for one, would like to thank them. Not only are… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #364 – Girls at the Front
Ok, seriously, guys. I am really torn on this one. I love ebooks. I can carry a library worth of books on my phone and or tablet, so if I get all weird and persnickety partway through a story, I can switch to another book without carrying eleventy-million pounds of them in my bag. Granted,… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #353 – Gaming Books: Ebooks versus Physical Copies
So, yeah, I’m old. I, in fact, remember the 1980s Satanic Panic, where everything from music to movies were tools of Satan just waiting to corrupt and destroy American culture and our way of life. One of the “victims” of the Satanic Panic was Dungeons & Dragons. According to Jack Chick’s “Dark Dungeons,” as well… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #308 – The 80s Satanic Panic and the RPG Industry
I keep thinking about doing some more substantive posts, about serious things in the geekosphere. You know, like WotC deciding that the two least inclusive people in the entirety of gamer culture should be involved in their “more inclusive” D&D 5e. Or how Randy Queen, the creator of Darkchylde lost his tiny mind over being… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #303 – The Geek Girl What Rules’s Top RPGs
I am giving this its own post because playtesting is how you tell if your game is playable, if people want to play it and what you need to do to fix this broken ass game that makes perfect sense in your head, but not so much to anyone who isn’t living in your head.… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #240 – Playtesting
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