Punchbowl: Jess Zimmerman
Join the Party
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🗓️ 28 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Punchbowl, an interview segment about playing Dungeons and Dragons in 2017 and beyond. We talk to people who are pushing the game forward - creatively, communally, socially, just doing good work.
Today we sit down with Jess Zimmerman, editor at Electric Literature and writer of the Role Monsters essay series. We talk about finding female personality in monsters, D&D’s rebirth in popular culture and owlbear taxonomy. Find her at @j_zimms on Twitter or anywhere you see her byline. Check out the articles mentioned in the interview below!
- The Role Monsters essay series - http://bit.ly/2BgcQBk
- Join the Party article in Electric Literature - http://bit.ly/2k3fkQ8
- The first Community D&D episode - https://www.hulu.com/watch/212754
- How Did A Bunch Of Mythical Monsters Become Queer Icons? By John Paul Brammer - http://bzfd.it/2k4m5RO
- The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons & Dragons By Neima Jahromi - http://bit.ly/2iV2Cj9
This episode of Join the Party is produced and edited by Eric Silver. Mixed by Brandon Grugle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Eric, your DM, and welcome to the Punch Bowl, the fourth episode of our interview segment on Join the Party. |
| 0:08.0 | Even on our off weeks, I'm thinking about D&D, like the stat bonuses you might get after eating a Turducin, I would say, plus |
| 0:16.2 | two to Belching. |
| 0:19.2 | But I'm also thinking about what it's like to be a player in 2017 and beyond. So I figured I'd put that to good use |
| 0:26.4 | and talk to those who are pushing the game forward, creatively, communally, socially, just doing |
| 0:32.4 | good work. |
| 0:34.4 | Maybe it's the role playing, the imagination, or the snappy one-liners, |
| 0:38.6 | but creative people gravitate towards D&D. |
| 0:41.9 | So when I'm enjoying a song, a book, an essay, or a movie that |
| 0:45.8 | references a critical hit, I feel like I'm in a secret club of players with |
| 0:50.6 | these illusions as our thieves can't. |
| 0:53.0 | So I'm reading this beautiful essay about complexity and female personality |
| 0:58.0 | and the lead is about fighting a chimera in a D&D game. |
| 1:02.0 | I need to track down the writer. Welcome to Jess Zimmerman, writer, |
| 1:07.0 | editor, and RPG player. As soon as we stepped into our studio out in Queens, |
| 1:13.0 | Jess and I talked and cracked jokes like we've been adventuring for years. |
| 1:17.0 | And then I remembered, we had to hit the record button. |
| 1:20.0 | Jess, what's going on? |
| 1:22.0 | Hey, I'm sitting in a room. |
| 1:24.0 | This is good. |
| 1:26.0 | This is the energy that I was excited. |
| 1:28.0 | It's starting with. |
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