15 December 2023 - Role-Playing Games As Identity Discovery Gender Identity Weekly podcast

15 December 2023 - Role-Playing Games as Identity Discovery

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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