My review of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition was published in Helsingin Sanomat today. Its also available on their website here. Its in Finnish.

The roleplaying event Ropecon is on 8.-10.8.2008 in Espoo, Finland. I have a number of programs there.
Friday
20:00-22:00, the panel discussion Roolipelien dokumentaatio, in Sali 26
A Finnish-language discussion about the documentation of roleplaying games, led by Jaakko Stenros and featuring Johanna Koljonen, Juhana Pettersson and Jussi Ahlroth.
23:00-01:00, the presentation Roolipelaaja - Maailman (melkein) ainoa roolipelilehti, in [...]

RPGnet has a review by Ryan Paddy of this year’s Knudebook Playground Worlds. Here’s what he has to say about my article, The Age of Indulgence:
Juhana Pettersson is a funny guy, given to mock-serious writings. Here he discusses the potential of larp as a vehicle for physical indulgence. He gives some real larp examples ranging [...]

An octopus with 96 tentacles, “believed to be the result of abnormal regeneration”.

From Pink Tentacle

A guy called Danny Zabbal has some great superhero concepts at his Flickr page.

“He misses the rivers, streams and fish of his home planet.”
via Beaucoup Kevin

Here’s the cover of the new Roolipelaaja, no 16. The theme is probably not hard to guess. I just sent it off to the printers, and it should arrive to the subscribers around 28th of July, 2008.

I spotted the link to this in the irc. It’s described as a “non-official video” for the Zombie Zombie song Driving, directed by Simon Gesler and Xavier Ehretsmann. It manages to combine a whole load of things I love, from French electro and Antarctica to the G.I. Joe toys and the John Carpenter movie the [...]

(The images on the top row are from the larp Luminescence. The photos on the bottom row, by Silvére, are from the performance Bouffe c’que j’te donne.)
I’ve put up documentation for the last pieces listed in the Works page in the right sidebar, the larp Luminescence I did with Mike Pohjola and the performance Bouffe [...]

 
I’ve always had a soft spot for the comics and movies of Enki Bilal, despite all their faults. I like the fatalism and the sense of an old world haunting the new. The design is beautiful, a melancholy way of seeing the landscape of central Europe. It looks much more scifi to someone like me, [...]

I’m starting a new tabletop roleplaying campaign, based on a campaign I ran in 2006-2007. The original was about superheroes in Hollywood, and the new one will be a remake of sorts, for new players.
In the future, I’m planning to publish a book of some kind about this, but due to the fact that it’ll [...]

My friend Mike Pohjola has published a novel called (Gummerus, 2008), now reviewed in Turun Sanomat:
Kadonneet kyyneleet lomittaa kaksi tarinaa, jotka näyttävät olevan melko kaukana toisistaan mutta joissa molemmissa on suhteellisen paljon ongelmia - itse asiassa enemmän kuin pienet ihmiset tai olennot ovat valmiita murtumatta kestämään. Se kertoo palasia yksinäisen ja ahdistuneen Roosan [...]

Shirley Bassey has a fun cover of Pink’s Get This Party Started:

Steve Schofield, a British photographer, has a wonderful series of photos of science fiction fans, in costume, in their own homes.

via we make money not art 

By Kate Beaton, via Same Hat! Same Hat!