Well, this is new! WordPress has been a bit of an adventure so far.
Anyway, hi! I’m David. Also known, as you’ve seen now, as D.T.
I have been blogging about board games on boardgamegeek as the_windcaster for several years now in a few different content formats and now that my Author Website is up and running, I figured I might as well fold this in here as well!
If you’ve read my content before, you know that I’m pretty much out of chill when it comes to games that unironically or without purpose perpetuate heteronormative gender roles or colonialism. I’m also sick of designers from Europe deciding to make games about nonwhite cultures when there are designers from those parts of the world trying to make their own.
And I mean, sure, to each their own. But if you’re going to be having others at your table at a game night, don’t you want them to feel like they are fully seen for who they are and not like their identity or existence (or possibly the historical extermination thereof) has been reduced to stereotypes and pawns?
Well, I do. There’s plenty of other themes out there to drape over the core mechanism of pretty much any set of game mechanisms out there.
Thanks for reading,
-David