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Author Topic: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)  (Read 6510 times)

Shawn Driscoll

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RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« on: October 24, 2020, 11:20:29 PM »
Has this happened to you? An RPG you bought back in the day was designed by a guy that is now a woman.

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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2020, 11:35:47 PM »
I dont think that has ever happened.
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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2020, 12:29:35 AM »
Jacquays for one at least, right?
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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2020, 09:41:05 AM »
Jacquays for one at least, right?

That is the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2020, 11:20:12 AM »
Do former designers count? If so, there's the designer of Hulks & Horrors: http://www.bedroomwallpress.com/ who abandoned* their RPG work and claims to be designing video games.


*As in Open Source. There's even a Github here: https://github.com/jarcane/bedroom-wall-press

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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2020, 12:21:59 PM »
Jacquays is the only one I can think of.

Now if you're in to video game speed running then yeah, a whole lot of those bros are now chicks.

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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2020, 12:32:43 PM »
Jaquays is the only one I can think of, too. Seems to me more a videogame-nerd thing. OTOH it usually happens when they're in their 50s like Jenner, some kind of hormonal thing apparently, so we might get a second wave.

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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2020, 03:20:54 PM »
The author of Monsterhearts, and The Quite Year (Buried Without Ceremony) Joe Mac something is now Avery Alder. These are story games.

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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2020, 04:21:48 PM »
Don't know. Don't care.

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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2020, 09:12:31 PM »
I heard Pundit is going to transition to female so he can become a bonafide cat lady, but otherwise Jaquays is it.

Videogames, Dan Bunten is probably the most famous example.
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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2020, 11:27:46 AM »
Over at UFO Press Jay Iles is now Minerva (or Mina) McJanda. 

Not sure of the whole transitioning timeline, but the name change is recent.  At some point after the Legacy: Life Among the Stars 2e release and before the Shattered City - Mysthea release.

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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2020, 01:40:12 PM »
I heard Pundit is going to transition to female so he can become a bonafide cat lady, but otherwise Jaquays is it.

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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2020, 07:22:27 PM »
Why are 80% of transitions male to female, and only 20% female to male? That mystifies me.

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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2020, 08:11:01 PM »
Why are 80% of transitions male to female, and only 20% female to male? That mystifies me.
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Re: RPG Designer Dudes that are Now Women (how many?)
« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2020, 09:28:28 PM »
Why are 80% of transitions male to female, and only 20% female to male? That mystifies me.

I have two real friends who went from being male to female. I've known both for over half my life.

Of the two, one of them I genuinely think is a narcissist (clinically speaking) and in love with themselves, and the transition was in some way connected to that.

The other one I genuinely think is a woman who had the misfortune of simply being born in the wrong body. She is, in every way I can think of, a completely normal nerdy woman. She's well adjusted and a reasonably happy person.