Pfft. I wrote what I consider a pretty fun campaign about an island infested with thousands of rabid vampire babies and the groups push to rescue the royal family who was isolated in their castle in the center of the island. There were plenty of side quests, mini-bosses, creative treasures, loot, fighting, a fucking…

Nice. We had one LGBTQ member of our gaming group back in high school, and it was about the only place he felt welcomed - almost everyone in the group was an outcast of some sort, and we all bonded over that and the game. He was killed in a car accident my third year of college. I wish he was still around to see this…

Before anyone starts bitching about SJWs and movements for inclusivity hurting their pretendy-funtimes without remembering that, ultimately, DnD is a game based around cooperation:

That always seems like a really disrespectful theory. It’s like “sure you may think you want that, but you don’t. Here’s what you really want, according to me...”

She’s not “destroying” feminism. Feminism is a two sided thing just like everything what makes one woman feel powerful is not what makes another feel that way. The only thing that “destroys” feminism is when some women decide to tell other women how they should think.

Isn’t the theory that even when it become a girl’s fantasy, it’s a sign of how society taught you too much to find your self-value in those physical aspects?

Interesting. I’m a fledgeling author, and I’ve made a conscious effort not only to include roughly equal amounts of male and female characters, but to avoid some of the more obvious pitfalls that men writing women seem to fall into. (The Dresden Files books spring to mind - very enjoyable pop fantasy for the most…

I always love how there’s that one woman out there who can destroy feminism in comments like this.

Except that this article is about men creating content that only sexualizes women to an unnecessary degree. I agree with your statement - D&D is very much about wish fulfillment - but within the context of men portraying women only as sexual beings then it is about the male gaze. These changes to the illustrations…

It was never a fair fight between fundamentalist Christianity and D&D. One was a dangerous system full of dark mysticism and threats to warp a young mind beyond repair, and the other was a tabletop RPG.