Queer As A Three-Sided Die: Round Table From GaymerX3

At the GaymerX3 convention in December 2015, several well-known tabletop roleplaying industry members took part in a discussion called "Queer as A Three-Sided Die" which dealt with issues of queerness in the tabletop community. The participants were Tim Motishaw (D&D Adventurer's League Regional Coordinator), Joseph Carriker (Changeling: The Lost, Relics & Rituals, Stormwrack), Jeremy Crawford (lead designer, D&D 5th Edition), Steve Kenson (Mutants & Masterminds), Donna Prior (OrcaCon, Green Ronin), and Wesley Schneider (editor-in-chief, Paizo). The YouTube video is below (51 minutes), but I've also borrowed a bunch of bookmarks from Wesley Schneider's website so you can drop in at points which interest you.

[video=youtube;xCQCO5ZCONo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQCO5ZCONo[/video]

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[h=4]Bookmarks[/h]

• General Introduction (00:13)
• What is this Panel? (By Q3SD creator Steven Kenson; 1:11)
• “My Name is Joseph Carriker…” (05:00)
• “Hello Everybody, My Name’s Donna…” (07:36)
• “I’m Steve Kenson…” (11:10)
• “I’m Wesley Schneider…” (“Secret” Gamer Illuminati; 13:56)
• “I’m Jeremy Crawford…” (17:45)
• Coming Out Through Roleplaying (22:44)
• “Why Aren’t You Writing for Us?!” (24:19)
• I’m Not a Writer. How Can I Help Make Tabletop a Safe Space for Queer Content? (27:32)
• “…So Far in the Closet I Could See Narnia.” (30:46)
• Pushing Past Barriers to Participate in Tabletop (31:40)
• Dungeon Bears (33:16)
• The Experience of the Nerdy Queer (33:27)
• Donna Demonstrates Queer Tabletop Event Coordination (34:14)
• “It’s Hard Enough to Get ANYONE to Play Tabletop…” (34:36)
• Gravitas vs Safe Space (36:31)
• “There is Absolutely Nothing Wrong with Creating a Fantasy World Where Being Queer is Totally Okay.” (“Anyone Who Tells You Otherwise is Wrong”; 37:19)
• Queer Villains (39:09)
• I Love the Female Characters, But the Men… eh. (41:42)
• “Isn’t that $#%&ing Refreshing.” (41:27)
• “It is Truly an Issue.” (43:08)
• Men Get to Be Fabulous (44:42)
• Do You Find/Erase Homophobic/Misogynistic/Racist Content? (45:46)
• Moving Beyond Placeholder Characters (46:54)
• Diversity is Something We’ve Got to Always Be Considering (47:44)
• Descriptions of Male and Female Characters (49:12)
• Adventures We’re Excited For (50:54)
• Clapping (51:27)

 

[Wepwawet]

Of course the conversation will never take place until we get past the point where even mentioning it turns into 4 pages of people being forced to justify why they should even be allowed to talk about it lest someone's day be mildly interrupted by being force-fed political correctness.

Hey, but it stopped at 4 pages! That's a sort of progress. Last LGBTQ-related thread I remember went for a lot longer

EDIT: Damn, I bumped it to 5...

 

[noface0711]

Never played with anybody gay/queer at the table (that I know ha) but would have no problem with it at all.