I started roleplaying with the Finnish edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and graduated to playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition as soon as I learned enough English to read the books. While there’s been good and interesting stuff done in the 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of the game, Continue Reading
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Non-Digital: Becoming a Perfect Human
Recently, me, Jaakko Stenros and Tuomas Puikkonen did a larp called Täydellinen ihminen (The Perfect Human). The idea was to delve deep into the clean, bright world of office stock photos. For a few hours, our participants would become these happy, smiling, efficient and joyful people. They would embody a Continue Reading
Pikseliparatiisi: Sä oot vaan niin ykköstyyppi
Pelasin Mad Maxia. Pelin loppupuolella aavikolta alkaa löytyä tyyppejä joilla ei ole oikeastaan muuta asiaa kuin sanoa, että sä olet Max aivan ykkösjätkä. Seuraavaksi ohjelmassa oli Dragon Age: Inquisitionin laajennus Trespasser. Siinä jengi supisee keskenään hahmon kulkiessa ohitse, että tuossa se nyt menee. Inkvisiittori. Vähänkö tärkeä tyyppi. Monissa roolipeleissä ja Continue Reading
Pikseliparatiisi: Vaikea kohta
Pelaan työsyistä uutta Mad Max -peliä. Se on avoimen maailman aavikkoseikkailu, jossa Max ajelee ympäriinsä autolla ja tekee pääasiassa erilaisia sivutehtäviä. Noin kaksi kolmasosaa pelistä sujui leppoisissa merkeissä, kunnes tapahtui jotain joka kauhistuttaa kaikkia meistä, jotka pelaamme deadlinen kanssa: Pelissä oli ns. difficulty spike, eli kohta joka on tuntuvasti vaikeampi Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Seven Larps, Seven Countries
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
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 #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