I’m on a study project to improve my understanding of roleplaying games. To this end, I already have two reading projects, A Game Per Year and An Adventure Per Year. This is the third, with the goal of reading or playing 52 games made in the last few years. Originally I considered making Continue Reading
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A Game Per Year: Castle Falkenstein (1994)
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 bought a copy of Castle Falkenstein in my local game Continue Reading
15/52 New RPGs: Peukaloisprinssi (Thumb-Sized Prince)
I’m on a study project to improve my understanding of roleplaying games. To this end, I already have two reading projects, A Game Per Year and An Adventure Per Year. This is the third, with the goal of reading or playing 52 games made in the last few years. Originally I considered making Continue Reading
14/52 New RPGs: Waterdeep – Dragon Heist
I’m on a study project to improve my understanding of roleplaying games. To this end, I already have two reading projects, A Game Per Year and An Adventure Per Year. This is the third, with the goal of reading or playing 52 games made in the last few years. Originally I considered making Continue Reading
13/52 New RPGs: Sinä vuonna 1918 (The Year 1918)
I’m on a study project to improve my understanding of roleplaying games. To this end, I already have two reading projects, A Game Per Year and An Adventure Per Year. This is the third, with the goal of reading or playing 52 games made in the last few years. Originally I considered making Continue Reading
Hard Design and Soft Design in Roleplaying Games
The verb used for the making of roleplaying games is “design”. I design a roleplaying game. The word “design” encompasses the deliberate choices that guide how a prospective player engages with a published roleplaying game. After all, a published game book is a guide that seeks to give the reader Continue Reading
12/52 New RPGs: Terror of the Stratosfiend – Troika Edition
I’m on a study project to improve my understanding of roleplaying games. To this end, I already have two reading projects, A Game Per Year and An Adventure Per Year. This is the third, with the goal of reading or playing 52 games made in the last few years. Originally I considered making Continue Reading
11/52 New RPGs: Blightburg
I’m on a study project to improve my understanding of roleplaying games. To this end, I already have two reading projects, A Game Per Year and An Adventure Per Year. This is the third, with the goal of reading or playing 52 games made in the last few years. Originally I considered making Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #171 – Ice Tomb
Fiction: Deborah Jackson: Ice Tomb (Invisible College Press, 2004) Ice Tomb is a romantic scifi thriller set half on Antarctica, half on the Moon. Its main character is Erica, a volcanologist who’s ideas have been swiped by an insecure asshole of a boyfriend. To add insult to injury, the boyfriend, Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #31: Scourge of Worlds
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. Scourge of Worlds is Continue Reading