Episode 36: Prideful Play & Lesbian Liabilities

“Back once again with the renegade (games-)master", it's a new episode of Til Dice Do Us Part for the first time in quite a while!  Our Pride Month special starts with a section on Queer Themes In Roleplaying Games.  We discuss how LGBTQIA+ history intersects with roleplaying games - setting the scene for how world history developed alongside gaming - and then explore how players and GMs can (and should!) include queer characters and topics in your sessions. A big inspiration for this section was They Came To Slay by Thom James Carter.

After that, it's an Elevator Pitch for that most sapphic of subjects, most gay of games - Thirsty Sword Lesbians by April Kit Walsh.  We'll explain what we like about the system, the kind of games you can play with it, how practical it is to play if you're not a lesbian, and what happened when we ran it with our group... Oh, and why the obvious place for our podcast to take this subject to is.... a British DIY store?

Finally there's a third bonus section to make up for the long gap since the last episode - an Unboxing in which Ailsa cracks open a blind bag of random dice from Mystery Dice Goblin.  What toys await inside the pack?  What non-dice items are found inside?  And how the hell do we do an unboxing sequence of a purely visual set of items in an audio medium?

There's a variety of other bits filling out this almost 2 hour long bumper episode.  Find out if Twike's come to terms with the death of Twitter!  Hear scandalous stories of 90s game developer's personal lives!  Receive an explanation of how you formally become bisexual in Scotland, and who gives you your official approval!  Marvel at how few ice cream flavours British people have!  All this, and there's even time for an advert break in which our resident monster hunter Sobek Strathclyde invites us to join him on the search for Edinburgh's most horrible creature.

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