About
Hello my name is Fenn! I am a TableTop Role Playing Game (TTRPG) player, Host (also called a Game Master or GM), Creator and scholar! I love so many different aspects of TTRPGs and I'm trying to show that love with the world! I plan to use this space to talk about tabletop Role Playing games, systems, and my favorite TTRPG podcast! Worlds Beyond Number is going to be my primary focus for analysis early on! I am a veteran of 5 and a half years in the U.S. Army. I am also trans and nonbinary (They/Them pronouns)! These often contradictory aspects of my life help me understand the world from a unique lens that I hope to share.
Tabletop role-playing games are unique opportunities for people to explore empathy. By placing yourself into another, likely vastly different, perspective, there are connections building in your brain that stick with you in your daily life. For transgender people, it could be being able to explore their gender in a safe space. For veterans, it could help them reflect and understand their complicated relationship to their service. For scholars, it can be a deep dive into how systems of power influence our discussions and actions.
I have been playing tabletop role playing games for almost 14 years. I started in high school with a couple of friends playing Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition. The first session was like magic and I have become hooked ever since. I was able to be very exploratory with my own identity. I have used different campaigns and characters to help connect with my friends, learn to be vulnerable, and to process some trauma that I have dealt with since childhood. My community has been amazing and I am very thankful to them. I am also a TTRPG creator, releasing some modest zines for systems like Wanderhome, Mork Borg, Troika, and Space Kings. (As well as some system agnostic projects in the works)I work heavily with the Queen of Cups team, a wonderful group of peers that I have known since 2020, and have a devout passion towards community and art expression. We also host a discord server that has public games on weekdays and weekends!
I have also been a Researcher and Host (or Game Master) for a Social Work project called Roll with Hope, that uses a unique setting to help Social work students, staff, and faculty rethink their own relationship to each other and their community. It is an amazing opportunity to hone my skills as a storyteller and hope to continue to work with the Roll with Hope research cohort on more socially engaged role playing game research.
By creating stories together with peers, you may help shape the narrative towards new and unexplored areas of your own mind just waiting for you to find them. Collaborative storytelling is a practice in social exploration, trust, and imagination. By using dice, cards and other resources, random chance may push your stories in unexpected ways, force you to adapt to hardship or experience success in impossible circumstances. As some will say “The dice will tell their story.” It is not only their story to tell, but yours. Collectively.
I also have a deep love for academia and philosophical conversations. However, a constant thorn in my side regarding in-depth analysis and conversation is that oftentimes that relies on inaccessible language. I'm personally under the belief that everyone should be able to participate in critical analysis and scholarly pursuits.
This blog will serve as a community driven curiosity space. I want to share my love for different tabletop stories, systems, and underlying themes. We can apply critical analysis to the things we love! We can use the collaborative stories we tell to help guide us toward liberation!
Please send me an email, @ my social media accounts, or send me a letter that I can address or respond to. My knowledge is incomplete, so with your help, we can get a better understanding of the world TOGETHER!