Welcome to the fourth 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 who hasn’t GMed in a long time asks how to do so in a group with women, including new...
Read more →Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or, I don’t know, you aren’t involved in the indie game community), you’ve heard about this shiny new game called Monsterhearts. For the rock-dwellers, I’ll briefly say that Monsterhearts is an Apocalypse World1 hack for supernatural teen romance written by Joe Mcdaldno. Think Buffy, Vampire Diaries, True...
Read more →This is the inaugural post in a series exploring how specific game design decisions affect inclusiveness and gender equality at the gaming table. In this series, we will point out problems, but we will also discuss examples of mechanics which promote equality and inclusion. The discussion will be framed in the context of actual...
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