Petty Dreadful, a Survivor - Breaking the Game with Rowan Zeoli (Deathmatch Island)

Rowan Zeoli brings Petty Dreadful to the table. Petty is a rage-fueled, attention-seeking drag queen Playing to Win.

Rowan and I discuss gender performance, radical imagination, and the parallels between reality television and actual plays.

Petty Dreadful is built for Deathmatch Island by Tim Denee.

Rowan Zeoli is a journalist covering the intersection of progressive thought and niche cultural movements. She is co-founder of Rascal News, a worker-owned, reader-supported, tabletop journalism outlet. Her work has also appeared in Polygon, Tripsitter, Autostraddle, and The Fandomentals; where she’s covered gender, psychedelics, and the largest developments in actual play, from award winning indie programming to big budget productions. She is also co-founder of convention/non-profit WriteHive.

You can learn more about Rowan at:
https://www.characterswithoutstories.com/guests/rowan-zeoli

Mentioned in the episode: DIE, Triangle Agency, Project ECCO by My First Dungeon, Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast and The Seven Part Pact by Jay Dragon, Rom Com Drama Bomb by Elliot Davis, and authors/activists Judith Butler, Mariame Kaba, and Angela Davis.

No Quest for the Wicked is a story driven actual play podcast using Paizo’s sci-fi space opera system, Starfinder.

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