Gender Identity Weekly

Today on the show, I discuss role-playing games with Bill Tucker, an experienced improv actor and tabletop role-playing gamer.  Bill and I get philosophical about good and evil, when we can't be the person we want to be, and Darth Vader's poor fashion choices.

REFERENCES:
Find Bill on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/imbilltucker
Sly Flourish - Playing D&D can save your life:  https://slyflourish.com/playing_dnd_can_save_your_life.html
Dungeons & Dragons:  https://dnd.wizards.com/
Traveller:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller_(role-playing_game)
Shadowdark:  https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/pages/shadowdark
Call of Cthulu:  https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-rpg/
Gender Identity Today:  https://genderidentitytoday.com/

  • (00:00) - Show opening
  • (00:43) - Introducing Bill Tucker
  • (02:51) - RPGs can save your life
  • (07:03) - Performing for an audience of one
  • (11:38) - What's my motivation?
  • (17:31) - Skin in the game
  • (20:14) - When you don't make the character you want
  • (25:55) - Moving the story forward
  • (29:11) - The big and small stories
  • (33:14) - Accept and build
  • (36:36) - Society hands us roles
  • (42:07) - Playing a role we can't understand
  • (45:56) - Christmas in R'leyh
  • (50:21) - Role-playing the typical human experience
  • (53:36) - Good and bad - what's the diff?
  • (58:36) - Show closing
 

Creators & Guests

Host
Amethysta Herrick
Writer, Transgender Activist, Philosopher, and sometimes Software Consultant

What is Gender Identity Weekly?

Every week, join Amethysta Herrick and contributors to Gender Identity Today for a pithy discussion of the challenges facing humanity as each of us discovers our identity and gender.