Queer tabletop games are having a moment

polygon.com:

Sometimes, family looks like a runaway teen, a rambunctious devil-child, a gallant knight turned into a frog, an aspiring rock star, or a robot maid learning to live in community. Sometimes, it looks like a team of bright, rainbow-hued Super Sentai-style heroes kicking ass with the power of empathy. Sometimes, it looks like a team of plant children raised by a kind-hearted witch mother saving their community from ecological disaster.

Sometimes, it looks like friends at a table, rolling dice, telling a story, and enjoying each other’s company.

As long as TTRPGs have existed, queer people have used them to tell queer stories. Now, a new crop of queer storytellers and game designers are bringing innovative, entertaining games to the table. Evil Hat Productions’ Thirsty Sword Lesbians, a role-playing game designed for telling queer stories with friends, not only met its initial Kickstarter fundraising goal in less than three hours, but raised more than 10 times the initial goal — and won a Nebula award for Best Game Writing.

“I think queer creators are whom I trust the most to tell queer stories because they are invested the most in making sure they ring true,” says Dominique Dickey, a writer who has worked on a number of TTRPGs, including Thirsty Sword Lesbians. They say following the success of Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Possum Creek Games’ anticipated legacy slice-of-life, found-family-focused game Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast, they hope to see even more queer TTRPG success stories and creators being able to make a good living telling these stories.

Dickey recently completed a successful crowdfunding campaign for their newest TTRPG project, Plant Girl Game, a cozy game where players assume the roles of plant children — from