Welcome to the latest installment of Dear Gaming As Women! We invite our readers to asks us anything – and we’ll do our best to offer informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining answers. In today’s letter, a reader asks for insight on gender representation in MtG: Dear Gaming as Women, The central characters in Magic: the Gathering...
Read more →It’s that time again! Time for another installment of Dear Gaming as Women! We do invite our fair readers to send us questions, and today’s question is from a convention organizer (we’ve been asked not to specify which convention) regarding implementation of anti-harassment policies at conventions. There’s some great stuff here, so let’s dive...
Read more →In recent months, there has been an increasing awareness of convention harassment. To their credit, most of the people who are running conventions of all geek varieties are taking action. Harassment policies are being written where before none existed, they are being clarified where there were only vague statements, they are being publicized where there was no way...
Read more →SPOILER ALERT: This article spoils some of the subplots (but not the main plot) of Baldur’s Gate II. You have been warned! I have very fond memories of playing the Baldur’s Gate series. Written for the AD&D Second Edition rules and set in the Forgotten Realms, the series had a rich, detailed world, a...
Read more →Welcome to the third installment of our new feature: Dear Gaming As Women! We invite our readers to asks us anything – and we’ll do our best to offer informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining answers. Without further ado, here’s today’s letter: Dear Gaming As Women, When you sign up for a convention game, what things...
Read more →1979: When I was in grade school, I started playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. I had played the “red box” D&D, and a bit of a home brew Tolkien game, but AD&D was the first game I really got into. I pored over those books like they were holy texts. I made up scores...
Read more →Welcome to the second installment of our new feature: Dear Gaming As Women! We invite our readers to asks us anything – and we’ll do our best to offer informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining answers. Without further ado, here’s today’s letter: Dear Gaming As Women, Does being a feminist ever get easier? Right now it...
Read more →Welcome to the first installment of our new feature: Dear Gaming As Women! We invite our readers to asks us anything – and we’ll do our best to offer informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining answers. Without further ado, here’s today’s letter: Dear Gaming As Women, As a life long gamer who always chooses the male...
Read more →I’d like to talk about race, specifically race and gaming. I am white, so my first thought is that I’m not the best person to be talking about this. I’m not an expert on race, and being privileged in my country based on being white, my viewpoints are affected by that privilege. To make...
Read more →Let’s be clear, I’m the hero of this story. I have a wicked step-mother to prove it. I’ve survived adversity. I could tell you stories about my childhood that would make your hair stand on end. And I have prospered. I started with nothing, and I worked my way up to get what I...
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