About
Growth Through Communication
Weapons Grade Funk is a solo-run tabletop gaming company headed by a queer creator with a single guiding focus: Friends who write together grow together.
With each product I create, I'm looking to bring something to the world that promotes people telling stories in environments they're not used to. Narratives resonate with us when we find familiarity in them, but I've found we can find that familiarity in places we never expected to see it once we break out of the paths we've always walked.
It's my goal to have players lean back at the end of a game, shocked at how invested they've become. I want them to grieve over hurts they can't identify, delight over triumphs they never considered important, witness the journeys of players around them and be amazed at their own compersion, and at the end of all ask themselves:
"Why is it that I feel this way about this?"
Because we find, with role playing adventures, tabletop games, and every other combination of friends at a table willing to be vulnerable with each other, that those questions have amazing, unexpected, and life changing answers if you're brave enough to speak them aloud.
Meet the Creator
Emily is a trans pansexual nerd from California who credits media and community communication with helping her make sense of what was otherwise a very confusing existence. Life has taught her the ability to share our stories helps us learn more about ourselves, and our willingness to listen with an open mind will give us perspective we lack. Through gaming narrative she hopes to show people stories they rarely get to see: combinations of queer narrative and struggle often undiscussed in mainstream production, so that the people who need to see those things get to, and can feel what is, perhaps, the greatest feeling any of us can ever have: the knowledge that we are seen.
Emily Fraser, she/her
Mother, Creator, Author, Designer, Manager
Partnerships and Contributors
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Jeremy Mullins
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Kei Wei Tsao
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Lauri Laurintytaer
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Lauren Budney
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Mindmachine
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Necrodrone13
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Nibiki
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Oksanna Briere
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Vadersan
Every enterprise is eventually going to require the skills of professionals beyond what the originator can provide alone. Weapons Grade Funk has had the pleasure to contract dozens of amazing artists to help create the amazing characters and environments players interact with in our games.
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Bridget Wilson “Maloking”
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Brock Grossman
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Emily Fraser
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Gorezing
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Halley Maxwel
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Hitmore
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Irdeorum
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Jass Befrold