Gaining Advantage 014: Fantasy Accessibility with Fay Onyx
How can we make our fantasy worlds more accessible, thus encouraging more accessibility in the real world? Dale and Fay Onyx nerd out about disability, accessibility, and TTRPGs.
Fay Onyx is a queer, nonbinary, disabled writer, podcaster, game designer, and disability consultant whose work focuses on intersectional disability representation. Ze creates resources to help storytellers and game designers represent disability respectfully, including a Q&A series, a Decolonizing Games Resource List, and a series of articles about harmful disability tropes. Hir podcast, Writing Alchemy, has an actual play series about the adventures of disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill heroes. Fay is also working on Magic Goes Awry, a high fantasy roleplaying game that has detailed character creation with a rules-light core mechanic that creates plenty of magical mayhem.
- 0:00 Introduction
- 02:39 Interview: Fay Onyx
- 42:40 Wrap-up
Manually captioned. Transcript available at our website.
Fay Onyx Links
- Website: https://writing-alchemy.net/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/@writing_alchemy
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WritingAlchemy
- Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/S6S4BFL0
- The Owlbear Reintroduction Program Part 1: https://writingalchemy.net/podcast/episode-33-the-owlbear-reintroduction-program-part-1/