I started to feel that I didn’t know roleplaying games well enough so I came up with the plan to read a roleplaying game corebook for every year they have been published. Selection criteria is whatever I find interesting. Villains and Vigilantes is a superhero roleplaying game from 1979. I Continue Reading
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A Game Per Year: The Arduin Grimoire (1977)
I started to feel that I didn’t know roleplaying games well enough so I came up with the plan to read a roleplaying game corebook for every year they have been published. Selection criteria is whatever I find interesting. The Arduin Grimoire is in many ways a watershed in my Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Metamorphosis Alpha (1976)
I started to feel that I didn’t know roleplaying games well enough so I came up with the plan to read a roleplaying game corebook for every year they have been published. Selection criteria is whatever I find interesting. To be honest, my first choice for 1976 was the Watership Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Empire of the Petal Throne (1975)
I started to feel that I didn’t know roleplaying games well enough so I came up with the plan to read a roleplaying game corebook for every year they have been published. Selection criteria is whatever I find interesting. Empire of the Petal Throne is the world’s second roleplaying game, Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Dungeons & Dragons (1974)
I started to feel that I didn’t know roleplaying games well enough so I came up with the plan to read a roleplaying game corebook for every year they have been published. Selection criteria is whatever I find interesting. The first roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons in its original 1974 Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Chainmail (1971)
I started to feel that I didn’t know roleplaying games well enough so I came up with the plan to read a roleplaying game corebook for every year they have been published. Selection criteria is whatever I find interesting. There’s only one real starting point for a project like this, Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Itras by – the Menagerie
The Menagerie is a supplement for the Norwegian roleplaying game Itras by, created by Ole Peder Giæver and Martin Bull Gudmundsen. However, if you’re familiar with roleplaying game supplements, this is definitely something else. As befits the surreal nature of Itras by, the Menagerie calls into question the very meaning of Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Analog Game Studies vol. 2
I’ve read the second of the Analog Game Studies books in my quest to catch up on the series. You can check out the book here or read the articles here. After the introductory first book, this second volume is where the series really gets going. It feels like in Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Slowquest and Roleplaying Game Culture
I was at the Helsinki Comics Festival recently, lured in by the promise of roleplaying game related indie stuff. The Australian illustrator Bodie Hartley was there with a series of little booklets published under the title Slowquest. They’re interesting because while they are not roleplaying games, they are most definitely Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Our History
The Finnish Museum of Games opened a new exhibit on the history of tabletop roleplaying games in Finland yesterday. It’s wonderful stuff and I expected the feelings of nostalgia revisiting all these old things brought me. But the real surprise was in how much there was I’d never heard of Continue Reading