Table-Top Roleplaying Games (TTRPGs) are arguably more popular than ever. These games provide a system that encourages collaborative storytelling, and this reflective piece aims to explore the capacity
of this storytelling method for cross-gender connection. As it is possible for players to inhabit gendered
roles different to their own through play, TTRPGs allow for a simultaneity of player-gender and charactergender that offers a unique storytelling potential as bridges across gendered divides are built, and stories are shaped by a multiplicity of interconnected gender identities. Ultimately, this reflective piece aims to
explore how gender shapes the stories that people tell while playing TTRPGs and, conversely, how TTRPGs
open up unique possibilities for connection with alternative gendered perspectives. This piece also aims to queer the storytelling capacities of a form that has historically displayed hostility towards alternative
experiences and presentations of gender, despite, as this piece will argue, its ironically natural
predisposition towards trans-gender connection. The current rise in popularity of a storytelling technique that allows and encourages trans-gender connection is significant, as it suggests a willingness and desire
to create these moments of connection across gendered boundaries despite the demands of the patriarchal society that we live in. Specifically, this piece will examine the queer play of contemporary
table-top role-players Ally Beardsley and Beth May and reflect on my own experiences as a queer
Dungeons & Dragons player.