Editorial

From Star Wars to Stranger Things, tabletop RPGs are letting fans explore and expand the pop culture worlds they love

When you love something, it’s only natural to want more of it. Some of us love Star Wars for example - yes, even Rise of Skywalker - while others can’t help but want more of Stranger Things. The only natural solution is, of course, to find a way to have even more of these things that we love so much. Roleplaying in familiar worlds is an excellent way to do just that.

Where Are All The Fat Queer Video Game Characters?

One of the strangest things I’ve found working in this industry is that games are incredibly wary of including fat characters in general, never mind fat, queer video game characters. If they are included, they are either depicted as though Roald Dahl wrote them – pure and good who rarely put themselves first – or they are a walking fat joke whose depiction can be summed up by a desperate longing for food. Fat video game characters exist, and as with most depictions in media, it’s never a ‘one s

All My Friends Are Here: Dragon Age 2 and the Importance of Queer Friendships

It’s 2011. I’m fourteen years old and I am sitting deep inside of the closet. It’s a wooden box that fits me to the T and no matter how I try and move, I find it hard to breathe. When I do attempt to find the door, the fear of being released out in the open, to have everyone’s eyes on me, is what keeps me from moving. It’s that feeling that dogs me, and will continue to do so, for the next six years. But of course, there are moments of startling clarity, and none has been more sharp than when I
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