[h=3]Season of Sexism #1: The Sexist Game[/h]
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that we filmed a lot of footage on the topic of sexism in gaming while at UKGE. Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting a series of short featurettes, each addressing the issue from a different angle - from art to game design, to safety, and more. This is the first episode, "The Sexist Game", in which we introduce the subject by simply asking a number of people whether they feel that sexism in tabletop gaming is an issue. We asked a variety of people - gamers, designers, artists, publishers, cosplayers, and more.
We hope you enjoy this first episode. Next week we delve a bit more deeply with "The Fake Geek Girl".
[video=youtube;aPV5bvSk-bY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aPV5bvSk-bY[/video]
On a similar note, check out 25 Things to Know About Sexism & Misogyny in Writing & Publishing (warning: contains some NSFW language).
[h=3]Dungeons & Dragons News[/h]
[h=3]Roleplaying Games News[/h]
[h=3]Community News[/h]
[h=3]Boardgaming & Other News[/h]
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that we filmed a lot of footage on the topic of sexism in gaming while at UKGE. Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting a series of short featurettes, each addressing the issue from a different angle - from art to game design, to safety, and more. This is the first episode, "The Sexist Game", in which we introduce the subject by simply asking a number of people whether they feel that sexism in tabletop gaming is an issue. We asked a variety of people - gamers, designers, artists, publishers, cosplayers, and more.
We hope you enjoy this first episode. Next week we delve a bit more deeply with "The Fake Geek Girl".
[video=youtube;aPV5bvSk-bY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aPV5bvSk-bY[/video]
On a similar note, check out 25 Things to Know About Sexism & Misogyny in Writing & Publishing (warning: contains some NSFW language).
[h=3]Dungeons & Dragons News[/h]
- When Adventurers Aren’t Adventuring by Mike Mearls -- What happens between adventures in D&D Next? Mike discusses this topic in this week’s Legends & Lore. [threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?337461-New-L-amp-L-When-Adventurers-Aren’t-Adventuring[/threadcm]
[h=3]Roleplaying Games News[/h]
- Margaret Weiss Productions reports that all final Marvel orders have now shipped.
- Cubicle7 has some new Victoriana Third Edition previews.
- Kobold Press has launched a Kickstarter for Deep Magic -- "The Deep Magic project collects literally hundreds of spells. It offers variant magic systems. It updates familiar material, gathers new spells from a list of RPG designers you won’t believe, and it does it all at a very reasonable price."
- There's an adventure coming for Star Wars: Edge of the Empire! It's called Beyond the Rim.
[h=3]Community News[/h]
- A city is a series of connected streets and avenues, so having explored the houses and people who live in Blackfen, this week The Kyngdoms take a look at the streets and alleys that connect them all together and the lighting (or lack of it!) that keeps the darkness at bay.
- The Warden takes a look at the Pay What You Want model for publishing RPG books.
- Fred Hicks looks at the same subject in Pay What You Want Isn’t (Really) About Sales.
[h=3]Boardgaming & Other News[/h]
- Fantasy Flight Games recently announced Daybreak, an upcoming expansion for Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game. With two supplemental game boards and hundreds of cards and tokens, Daybreak invites players to undertake desperate missions, struggle under the constant threat of mutiny, and bargain with Cylon Leaders driven by motives of their own!
- Fantasy Flight Games has also announced The Trollfens, an expansion for Descent: Journeys in the Dark Second Edition that introduces new heroes, monsters, classes, quests, and more! Over the course of its five included quests (playable as side quests to a larger campaign, or as their own mini-campaign), heroes can discover and investigate secret rooms and rumors while the overlord spreads infection and brings a powerful new lieutenant into play: the massive troll Bol’Goreth.
- Tom Vasel, from The Dice Tower podcast, has a video review of Leviathan from Catalyst GameLabs. The game is not in Tom's preferred style, being a miniatures game more than anything else, but he gives it a go anyway.
- Play Unplugged has a lovely little unboxing video posted for Star Trek Catan. It is, as you might imagine, full of Star Trek things themed to Catan. Or Catan things themed to Star Trek. Your choice.
- The Forest of Doom, Ian Livingstone's classic Fighting Fantasy role-playing book, is now available for iPhone, iPad and Android (well, Android now and iOS later this week) smart phones and tablets at the price of USD$5.99. Take part in one of the classic gamebook experiences that introduced a whole generation to fantasy role-playing games back in 1983!
