Role-Playing

We’ve started a new role-playing game, with an interesting subject. It’s a game of Shadowrun, ...

Ropecon was some time ago. I’ve been trying to concentrate on reading, so commenting on Ropecon is several weeks late. ...

I’ve finally read something I’ve been meaning to read for a long time: the manifestos Dogma 99 and The Manifesto of the Turku School. While I understand, at least partly, the motivation behind these texts, I have to strongly disagree with both of them on some important facts. This is not surprising, as both we’re written in a polemical style, especially the Turku Manifesto, it being a witty version of the Communist Manifesto. ...

It seems we are finally reviving the larp chronicle we have been writing for several years now. We already agreed that the next part will be the last; maybe this has been a factor in our involuntariness to complete it. Mostly I think that it was due to growing bored of the subject and the increasing difficulty of coming up with new themes to deal with. When we started writing the first part of the now (or soon) 6-parted chronicle it was pure enthusiasm that kept us going for the first few ones. It is surprising that the same themes and plots kept us going for so long. ...

We tested the questionnaire J. Matias Kivikangas has written for Alterations yesterday with mainly positive results. There were some minor complications that made me wonder afterwards: ...

On Matthijs Holter’s article in Lifelike: Holter argues that we (the writers, students and - ) should stop talking about immersion. He admits that there is something called ‘immersion’, but that it isn’t constructive to use immersion as a term in writing about role-playing games and theory of role-play. I disagree and this is why: ...