Session Zero: A Love Letter To Your Players
*stares into the camera with a megaphone* This. Is. Not. The. Time. To. Be. Pedantic. It’s Session Zero, okay? 📢📢📢
Category: culture
Posts in this category are related to trends in gaming along with the mindsets that allow that culture to exist and/or thrive.
Discourse: Tabletop Version
There’s a lot of things that have been said about discourse over the last few months and while most of what I’m about to write could easily apply to so many things, these observations are about tabletop games. On the bird app, I read “I was told not to engage discourse” and found myself irritated.… Read more Discourse: Tabletop Version
Choosing Your Success: Accountability
Last night I was talking to a good birb friend (not a mistype) about project work, perfectionism, and trying to reign in project scope. As we talked over many things, the one thing that came up is a point of consent. The convo was something like, “I’ll start working on a thing, have an idea,… Read more Choosing Your Success: Accountability
On Things Redemption Looks Like
I was reading this thread the last night and among the things that stuck out for me was this particular point: I started to think about an answer to this question and the first thing I ran into was this thing I already wrote about accountability. In some of my calls for accountability, I’ve been… Read more On Things Redemption Looks Like
The Power of Language: Sexuality
As pride month ends, I’m copying this from my secret stash and posting it here. I hope these words are helpful and healing. I hope they lead to good questions. I hope you find courage here. * * * I feel like this comes up a lot for me; in many cases, I have a… Read more The Power of Language: Sexuality
Tabletop System Exodus Advocate OR Say What You Want, but Don’t Be Ableist…
With events at Wizards and Hasbro being what they are, more than a few people have opted to move away from Dungeons & Dragons as their primary material for creating games and are looking to other systems. This is a good thing and means more options for experiences in the space. They are also asking… Read more Tabletop System Exodus Advocate OR Say What You Want, but Don’t Be Ableist…
Community Praxis
Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized. Praxis may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) One of the things that I find to be true across my experiences in tabletop discourse is that while there are a lot… Read more Community Praxis
The Discourse
Dear Reader, It would seem that discourse about that same old thing has circled around again. You know, the one where some black person or other person of color said something about the thing that you thought only you had the right to speak on and that no one can ever critique because how dare… Read more The Discourse
Morals vs. Mobility
In light of everything that’s happening with Blizzard and their decision to silence free speech, I think a conversation is overdue about the concept of mobility and morals and the precedent we face. Anyone who has ever wanted to progress into sponsorship with a brand – regardless of the sphere – usually has a tacit… Read more Morals vs. Mobility
An Open Letter: Creator Hues
Hey there. It’s me, a black person who has seen you post something like “Race doesn’t matter when it comes to content creators” or “When I am looking for content creators, I don’t think about their race” or some other thing like this. The thing is: it does. How do we know it does? Because… Read more An Open Letter: Creator Hues