Dex the Gnome Revolutionary - Representing Neurodiversity with Simon (Shadowrun)

Characters Without Stories

Simon brings Dex to the table. Dex is a gnome hacker slowly becoming a revolutionary.
Simon and I discuss finding the bravery to be who you are, building characters that embody neurodiversity, and the intersection of masculinity and fantasy races.
This character is built for Shadowrun.
Simon is a queer, non-binary, autistic, and ADHD STEM educator that builds TTRPG characters to appease his brain spiders.
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Thanks for listening, and may all your characters find their stories!

Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Dex the Decker (00:01:15)

3. Brave in all the ways I am not (00:05:51)

4. Gnomes and hypermasculinity (00:08:01)

5. Yourself, turned up to 11 (00:12:48)

6. Leaving things better than you found them (00:15:31)

7. Shadowrun's future is our now (00:19:34)

8. How to get a cybernetic arm (00:24:30)

9. Meatspace isn't more real (00:30:33)

10. Going full goth (00:33:46)

11. If you settled down, what job would you take? (00:35:07)

12. Outro (00:35:47)