Longsword, Glock, Bat, Taser: How Bright Bard Games Turned A Tumblr Post Into A Game …

Pride Month may officially be winding down, but that doesn’t mean the queer community stops celebrating. For many players, tabletop gaming has become their favorite space to experience and engage with their queer identity. With that has come a growing cohort of LGBT designers and, naturally, games with LGBT themes. While many may think of the big, dramatic games like Thirsty Sword Lesbians, one of the sleeper hits in this genre has been a game with…the name LGBT. Which in this case stands for Longsword, Glock, Bat Taser. Designed by Jonathon Boyle with art by Brighid de Danann, and released by their publishing company Bright Bard Games, the 2024 release has gotten a brand new second edition that funded on Backerkit earlier this month. To learn more about where the game came from and what’s in this new edition, I sat down with Jonathon and Bri for a chat. Dan Arndt: So, tell me the exact origin point for this How do you go from a Tumblr post to something that you thought could be a game  Jonathon Boyle: We transport ourselves back to Pride 2024,  which I believe is 10 years after the original posting of the meme that
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