Jeannette Ng: Eye-opening little ancdote from a friend who ran a table top game for his all male gaming group: he genderflipped every character in the pre-written module resulting in an all female setting. His players grew increasingly paranoia and were convinced of a conspiracy.
The players (convinced there's some sort of murder cult going on) started scouring the setting for men. The pre-written module's village contained only one female character: the wife of the blacksmith. Unnamed. Which of course was all the more suspicious to them.
There was absolutely nothing my friend could do to convince his players that there wasn't a great conspiracy or at least a basement full of dead dudes."
LinguisticParadox: (Hashtag) This could be a new 'Bechdel' test: If you genderswap all the characters does it feel like something must have happened to all the men?
Tamitha
in reply to Harley 🐝🌿 • • •Jeannette Ng: Eye-opening little ancdote from a friend who ran a table top game for his all male gaming group: he genderflipped every character in the pre-written module resulting in an all female setting. His players grew increasingly paranoia and were convinced of a conspiracy.
The players (convinced there's some sort of murder cult going on) started scouring the setting for men. The pre-written module's village contained only one female character: the wife of the blacksmith. Unnamed. Which of course was all the more suspicious to them.
There was absolutely nothing my friend could do to convince his players that there wasn't a great conspiracy or at least a basement full of dead dudes."
LinguisticParadox: (Hashtag) This could be a new 'Bechdel' test: If you genderswap all the characters does it feel like something must have happened to all the men?