One of the great things about larp is that it’s such a young medium, we can do things for the first time. Exploring new frontiers of larp is easy since there’s so much that hasn’t been done yet. I worked on the Baltic Warriors project as a larp producer this Continue Reading
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Non-Digital: How to Create a Nasty Society
Last week, I wrote about the differences between Vampire: the Masquerade’s “game of personal horror” and the game I run, Verikartta, in which the horror has a more communal bent. The core of the matter is that for the vampires in the game, this is the only community they will Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #23: Nineties Satanism Panic
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. One of the curiosities Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #22: The Battle of Orgreave
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. The Battle of Orgreave, Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #21: Gravity Falls
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. Gravity Falls is an Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #20: German Larp Documentaries
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. Two recent, feature-length German Continue Reading
Non-Digital: The Horror of Other People
I’ve been running a game based on Vampire: the Masquerade these past few years, and when I started it, I realized I had to adapt it quite a lot to make it work for me. I’ve run three versions of my campaign Verikartta, and characters from each game have visited Continue Reading
Pikseliparatiisi: Kyberpunkin ihana optimismi
Pelaan paraikaa äskettäin ilmestynyttä Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong -peliä. Sen kyberpunk-maailmassa jättimäiset korporaatiot hallitsevat maailmaa. Heillä on omat armeijat, linnoituksen kaltaiset pääkonttorit ja loputtomat työntekijöiden armeijat. Pelin maailma on dystooppista retrofuturismia, joka osoittaa että eilispäivän pessimistit uskoivat sittenkin liikaa yritysten kykyyn jäsennellä yhteiskuntaa. Shadowrun on alkujaan vuonna 1989 julkaistu suomeksikin Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Old School Fringe
One of my pet themes recently has been how ideas in tabletop roleplaying spread, or fail to reach anyone outside a small, limited scene. Some movements have been quite successful at reaching wider audiences. The American Story Games scene is one of these, and the Danish Fastaval scene another. A Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Larping in the Middle of a Demonstration
Some people do larps in highly controlled environments such as the “Black Box”, a featureless room with lights that can act as the abstract stage for any larp scene. In these games, the players can enjoy freedom from the distractions of the world and the organizers have maximum control over Continue Reading