Non-fiction: Robert A. McCabe: DeepFreeze! (International Photography Publishers, 2010) DeepFreeze! is a photobook documenting a trip to the Antarctic by the American photojournalist Robert A. McCabe. The title of the book comes from Operation Deep Freeze, the name of the American Antarctic programs started in 1955. McCabe’s visit to Antarctica Continue Reading
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A Game Per Year: Dream Park – The Roleplaying Game (1992)
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. Dream Park is a roleplaying game based on the series of Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Amber Diceless Role-Playing (1991)
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. In 2004, the game designer Erick Wujcik was one of the Continue Reading
An Adventure Per Year: Tomb of Horrors (1978)
In my A Game Per Year project, my goal has been to read one roleplaying game corebook for every year they’ve been published. However, I soon started to feel that it was hard to decipher how the games were really meant to be played. For this reason, I decided to start a Continue Reading
An Adventure Per Year: Tegel Manor (1977)
In my A Game Per Year project, my goal has been to read one roleplaying game corebook for every year they’ve been published. However, I soon started to feel that it was hard to decipher how the games were really meant to be played. For this reason, I decided to start a Continue Reading
An Adventure Per Year: Palace of the Vampire Queen (1976)
In my A Game Per Year project, my goal has been to read one roleplaying game corebook for every year they’ve been published. However, I soon started to feel that it was hard to decipher how the games were really meant to be played. For this reason, I decided to start a Continue Reading
An Adventure Per Year: Blackmoor (1975)
In my A Game Per Year project, my goal has been to read one roleplaying game corebook for every year they’ve been published. However, I soon started to feel that it was hard to decipher how the games were really meant to be played. For this reason, I decided to Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #169 – Forbush and the Penguins
Fiction: Graham Billing: Forbush and the Penguins (Coronet Books, 1970) Considering that New Zealand is one of the two gateway countries to Antarctica (the other is Chile), it’s surprising that so few Antarctic creative works have come from there. Because of that, it was nice to read this novel, originally Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #168 – Mountains of Madness
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
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