15 December 2023 - Role-Playing Games as Identity Discovery

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