If you sat down at a tabletop games convention and discovered the GM for the adventure was wearing a t-shirt which read “Dungeon Mommy – Roll for Mercy”, would you be uncomfortable?
Redditor Glitter_Crits is a 5’2 cisgender, femme-presenting woman, and a GM. She wanted to know whether she should wear her t-shirt to run one-shots at a community event, and so she asked Reddit.
Ultimately, after Reddit weighed in, Glitter_Crits decided against wearing it. But does the data support that?
I copied all the text from the Reddit page, asked Gemini to analyse the comments into “For” wearing the t-shirt, “Against,” or “Undecided,” and built a running total table.
Then I took that table and built a racing bar chart script out of JavaScript, and you can see that the Reddit public opinion was neck and neck for a while.
T-Shirt Debate: Running Vote Total
Sentiment analysis of comments over 24 hours.
As you can see, according to Gemini’s analysis, the votes for wearing the t-shirt outweigh those against it. I looked at the first 24 hours of data. Anything in Reddit’s “1 day” bracket was assigned to hour zero.
I’m team “wear it” because I dislike the idea of anyone telling anyone else what to wear, and I don’t think it’s an adult t-shirt that can’t easily and safely be explained to kids through the true distraction that the DM at the table decides how merciful a life your character has.
I’ve also been hunting for the t-shirt and found this from The Game Good Shop. There’s a Dungeon Daddy t-shirt with “Roll For Mercy” that has some traction on TikTok, but this had to be Dungeon Mommy.
P.S. Dear readers, I spent far too long on this post. It was a wild idea, an impulse and thankfully brief obsession with ‘I wonder if I can…’
Quick Links
- The original Reddit thread.
- Is this the t-shirt in debate?
Would you wear a Dungeon Mommy t-shirt in public? Or is it too weird and risky?
