We are adventurers.

Into every place anywhere in the world.

We are adventuring.

We are adventurers.

Hello Heroes and welcome to a new year of One Shot. I'm James Damato, your host in GameMaster.

Heroes, One Shot has always been about helping folks discover new games and growing the

RPG community while helping it become more inclusive.

I think One Shot is a great platform for helping designers and games get noticed.

So this year I want to try something more ambitious than our regular approach.

In 2019, we're only going to feature games designed or co-designed by non-Siz male designers or designers of color.

For folks who are not as well versed in gender vocabulary,

Siz means you identify as the gender you were assigned at birth. That leaves us with a pretty broad demographic of designers that we're working with.

In our five-year history, we've definitely featured games by marginalized designers.

But if you look at our archive, the vast majority of games we've featured are by folks who fall under the Siz

white male descriptor. I know a lot of the designers whose work we've featured. They're good people. People who I think share our vision for an inclusive community. This isn't an attempt to cut them out or imply that their work is unworthy. This is simply us continuing to

stand by the values we've always had as a network. To truly have an inclusive community,

marginalized folks need to see themselves in gaming spaces.

They need to have role models they can look up to.

They need to be able to connect their ideas with audiences.

And they need to feel like the community is willing to nurture and support them.

Now, one shot can't do that alone, but we can be part of a larger conversation.

I know that people listen to our shows, play games that we feature, and follow designers that we highlight.

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