Obviously, Sexism in games is kind of a deal around here, and we’re always looking to up the signal, broaden the conversation, and keep talking about the issues until they improve. (And they can and DO improve!) So when GaW’s own Professor Jessica Hammer turned me on to GTFO, a documentary in the making...
Read more →Standard Action is a live-action online webseries currently Kickstarting their third season. The show is about a motley crew and their adventures, including a barbarian elf and halfling bard. I had the opportunity to interview the women involved with Standard Action and learn more about their work on the show and their gaming backgrounds!...
Read more →Continuing the feature about my local gaming organization, GASP (Gaming Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania), I took the opportunity to interview one of the GASP founders. Don McCalmon is one of the GASP coordinators who I met at GASPcon. If you would like to see the interviews of some of the women players at GASP,...
Read more →I was lucky enough recently to have the chance to interview women who attend the events at my local gaming organization, GASP (Gaming Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania), as well as organizers of GASP. GASP’s recent convention (Fall 2012) had about 20-25% women in attendance, and that is awesome! It’s a good number to start...
Read more →Job Hunters is a web series about mortal combat and after college hopefuls ready to kill for the job of their dreams. What I didn’t realize when I first took a look at their Season 2 Kickstarter is that three of the four brains behind the show are women! And they are some serious...
Read more →Gillian Fraser is the lead designer for Wicked Fantasy. Wicked Fantasy, currently KSing here, is a project where she and veteran designer John Wick are re-imagining fantasy races from scratch. As soon as I saw this Pathfinder supplemental had a woman as lead, I knew I had to talk to Gillian, and I was not disappointed! Here’s her fantastic...
Read more →I have been incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to do an e-mail interview with Judy Bauer, an editor at Paizo Publishing. Judy primarily does editing for Pathfinder, and she has been kind enough to provide us with some extensive and awesome responses to our questions about her history, being a woman in the...
Read more →I recently had the opportunity to speak with creators of the Pathfinder RPG at Paizo Publishing, James Jacobs (Creative Director) and F. Wesley Schneider (Editor-in-Chief). The subjects at hand were: the inclusion of the “forced-sex” origins of Half-Orcs in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook (discussed here), and some of the art in the Pathfinder Advanced...
Read more →It was recently announced that an all female run of LARP ”Mad About the Boy” was being set up in the US, bringing Nordic LARP across the pond for the first time. Gaming as Women decided to interview Lizzie Stark, organizer of the game and author of the book ”Leaving Mundania”. Hey, Lizzie, could you...
Read more →Obviously, we love eating and gaming together. (Really, hit the food tag and you’ll see what I mean.) So when I saw a gamer putting together a cook book with gamers in mind, I flipped. Plenty of us talked about doing it, but here’s Tiffany Simmons making it happen. +5 Food of Eating is...
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