One part of being a welcome community to queer players is designing fantasy settings with a structure that normalizes queerness. You don't need to be making a specific commentary on queer stories to be inviting and open to queer gamers. To kick off pride month, we're talking about how to normalize queerness in your games!
I recently attended Eskhaton by Reverie Studios. It was talked about as a horror game, but in truth, it was a game of modern day cults and the end of the world. The characters and cults were the horrors, not the things being horrified. It was interesting to walk on the other side of that classic gaming genre. Here is a full review of the things that worked, what didn't, and what we can learn from this engaging, dark experience of an event.
I’ll preface this post by saying I am not omnipotent. I haven’t been involved in the American freeform scene near as long as many well-known names (Lizzie Stark, Sarah Lynne Bowman, Jacqueline Bryk, and Shoshana Kessock are some of the first that come to mind) but I sure as hell am dedicated to this new … Continue reading Converging “Nordic” and American Style LARP Design…
The Space Between Stories 