Boardgame: Rob Davia & Miguel Coimbra: Mountains of Madness (Iello, 2017) Based on the classic Antarctic H.P. Lovecraft novella At the Mountains of Madness, Mountains of Madness is a co-operative boardgame about an expedition seeking to uncover strange remnants and other relics from the titular mountain while avoiding injuries and Continue Reading
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Non-Digital: The Annotated Anarch
Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition won the Origins Awards for Best RPG as well as the fan award. I’m very happy about this. Origins attributes V5 to Modiphius but the original three books of the game were created in-house at White Wolf, before White Wolf was subsumed into its parent Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Writing About the Gehenna War
I worked as a freelancer on Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition, originally put together in-house by the new Swedish incarnation of White Wolf. (Now subsumed into the parent company Paradox Entertainment.) As part of that work, I contributed the chapter “The Gehenna War” to the Camarilla setting book. The discussions Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. (1990)
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. I must confess that I cheated. The game for 1990 is Continue Reading
Maa
Last Friday saw the publication of the fourth roleplaying game I’ve worked on in a major capacity. I can safely say that it’s also the most unusual game of my career so far. Maa (that’s Earth in Finnish; the game is bilingual Finnish/English) got started last summer when the American Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Ironhedge Manifesto (1989)
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. I’ve tried to go for variety when choosing what to read Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Bullwinkle and Rocky Role-Playing Party Game (1988)
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. Originally, I planned to read something else entirely for 1988, but Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Miekka ja magia (1987)
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 Finnish roleplaying game is The Secret Treasure of Raguoc Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Tunnels and Trolls (1986)
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. So far, every game I’ve written about has been a first Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Dragonroar (1985)
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. I had a lot of options for the game to read Continue Reading