Damsels & Dragons - A Web Series

One of the blog's best friends is America Young. Last year she gave us the web series Groupidity which I still think is great and a second season is coming. This year she had the idea to do a web series based on Live Action role playing. Oh, and everyone look for America in one of the SuperBowl Budweiser commercials. I can't really explain LARP. I have seen the movie Role Models so that is my point of reference. I primarily think of it as a guy thing, but the writer of the series explains that women play it also. Here is what he had to say.

Yes Girls RP
By Eric Campbell writer of Damsels and Dragons.

Yes. Girls RP. It’s a long standing joke in every gaming group I have ever played in. A conversation might start like this:
“We have a new player showing up tonight.”
“Oh sweet, what’s he playing?”
“SHE’S playing a druid.”
“Uh, she?”

Sometimes it’s hard for us fellas to imagine that members of the opposite sex indulge in fantastic adventures like we males do. Another excellent example of disbelief would be when April Wade and America Young approached me to write a web series based on an all girl LARP group (my response sounded less like a verbal double take and more like “stop playing with my emotions”)! They wanted something different, something they hadn’t tried before, something empowering. At first I thought they might just be humoring me.

So much time cloistered away in the ranks of the proud “Nerd” elite, it’s easy to forget that “play” doesn’t differentiate between sexes or species. We’re born with it: an excitement for life, for being alive. The kids out side playing hide and go seek are no different than the cat viciously attacking a deadly roll of toilet paper. Still, was this request for a project for real?

Lo, it was true and thus Damsels and Dragons was born. And being an avid gamer since I was a young kid I had no problems throwing myself into the script. I got to be Joss Whedon “for a day”, writing nerdy stuff for pretty girls (FTW)! And what started out as an experimental concept thingy, has now become a full blown web series project that has a humble yet very supportive fan base that is demanding more. And more they shall get.
So check it out. Come play.