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
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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
Non-Digital: Analog Game Studies vol. 1
I’ve worked a lot on tabletop games this year because of my involvement with Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition, and I developed a yearning for the kind of design writing about tabletop games that we have for larp in the form of the Knutepunkt books. As sometimes happens, it turns Continue Reading
Juhana @ Ropecon
Meitsillä on Ropeconissa kaksi ohjelmaa: Tuhannen viillon kuolema -larpin con-versio lauantaina. Lisätietoja täällä. Apurahahakemustyöpaja sunnuntaina jossa käsitellään sitä miten roolipeli- ja larppiprojekteille saa kulttuuriapurahoja.
Working on Vampire 5th Edition (also: Nazis)
I spent this spring working on the 5th edition of Vampire: the Masquerade. The first releases on the 5th edition line are the Corebook and the Camarilla and Anarch books. I’m the lead writer on the Anarch book but I also contributed to the two others. It’s been a strange Continue Reading
Chernobyl, Mon Amour now in crowdfunding!
In 2016, I published a roleplaying game about love and radioactivity in Finnish, called Tsernobyl, rakastettuni. The crowdfunding campaign for the English version, Chernobyl, Mon Amour, just launched, so check it out and back it!
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #28: Hot Girls Wanted – Turned On
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. In episode five of Continue Reading