Today, we played the third of this summer’s seven Baltic Warriors eco zombie larps in Sopot, Poland. Finding a good venue for the serious political discussion and the even more serious zombie action proved to be difficult, but we found a wonderful host in a place called Klub Atelier, a Continue Reading
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Non-Digital: The Joy of the Zeigarnik Effect
I’m standing in front of a wall. It’s made of wood, painted white. There are two black, small holes, probably made by nails, at my eye level. I run my hand along the surface of the white paint. I’m in the present, aware of what’s right in front of me. Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Baltic Warriors in St. Petersburg
Last Saturday, 6th of June, the second Baltic Warriors game of summer 2015 was played in St. Petersburg. I’m working on the project as a larp producer, and it’s surprisingly strange to make a game that’s being run in a language I don’t understand, in this case Russian. Others have Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Mechanics Against Character Immersion
In my last post, I complained about the lack of published game systems conductive to tabletop roleplaying with a focus on character immersion. I said that the kind of roleplaying that I like the best seems difficult to put into a published book. In this post, I’ll attempt to elaborate Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Character is All
As a matter of purely personal taste, here’s what I like about tabletop roleplaying games: 1 – Playing a complex and contradictory character engaged in interesting social environments. Experiencing the game principally through this character. 2 – Sex and violence, craziness and stupid decisions, the kind of stuff that is Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #138 – Throne of Ice
Comic book: Alain Paris et al: Throne of Ice (Humanoids, 2014) Right now, Antarctica is an arid continent of ice, but it hasn’t always been so. A long, long time ago the location of the continent was different, and so was its climate. This is borne out in the fossil Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #19: Mazes & Mutants
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. Mazes & Mutants is Continue Reading
Pikseliparatiisi: Tiskausta vallankumouksen keskellä
Olen saanut töitä siivoojana. Asiakas on rikas, ja hänellä on valtava kämppä. Kaksi kerrosta, valtavia valoisia tiloja ja talvipuutarha. Ensimmäisenä työpäivänä hoidan varsinaiset tehtäväni, mutta teen paljon muutakin. Asiakas on ilmeisesti juuri muuttanut asuntoon, joten availen laatikoita ja laitan asioita paikalleen. Kaikki on mielenkiintoista ja jännittävää. Pian alan ryytyä. Työ Continue Reading
Non-Digital: The Last Ropecon at Dipoli
Ropecon is a Finnish roleplaying game convention. It’s also been something that’s been a part of my life for twenty years now. It was first organized in 1994, but I missed the initial years. I’m pretty sure my first Ropecon was 1996. I was sixteen and had just discovered Werewolf: Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Baltic Warriors Tallinn
I work as a larp producer in the Baltic Warriors project, and first game of our summer season was played last Saturday in Tallinn. It’s quite intimidating to go another country to do a game there. I had never even played in an Estonian larp, but it seemed to go Continue Reading