Splat 2 : Adventures in Cyberspace is a zine focused on roleplaying games and what it means to play them, make them and interact with them in digital spaces.
It includes contributions from seven talented writers- from cool stuff about designing with Discord to making solo RPGs to how the digital changes our relationship to each other and our GMs.
Contents
- How to Design a Solo RPG While Losing Your Ability to Walk During a Pandemic, a step-by-step guide by Anna Anthropy
- Kate Bullock on the often-overlooked foundations of community organizing and creating safer spaces
- Kienna Shaw on how the narrative created in TTRPG livestreams is different from private and convention games
- Noordin Ali Kadir on how to keep digital spaces as safe as possible, and how to recognize problematic or bigoted patterns of behavior in these spaces
- A personal piece from Summer Matthews on the ways content creation changes our relationships to TTRPGs
- R K Wilde on our collective expectations of a "good" GM
- Will Jobst on finding and nurturing play in digital spaces, adapting those spaces for play and adapting play for those spaces
- An interview with The Game Band about your favorite splort and mine, Blaseball
