Gaining Advantage 028: Vulnerability and Chronic Illness in Tabletop Roleplaying Games

June 9, 2023
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Dale interviews Drew Wale about the Dretelia campaign setting, which is based on his chronic illness,  and the importance of vulnerability and authenticity in creating meaningful and resonant tabletop roleplaying games. We discuss how drawing on personal experiences and emotions can help to create more engaging and immersive worlds, and how being open and honest about our own struggles can help to create a more welcoming and inclusive gaming community. 

0:00 Introduction: Help caption the D&D cartoon
03:51 Interview: Drew Wale and Dretelia Campaign Setting
50:07 Patreon Showcase & closing

Manually captioned. Transcript available at our website.

Drew Wale Links

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Gaining Advantage 014: Fantasy Accessibility with Fay Onyx

June 9, 2023
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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.

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