Are Role-Playing Games Art?
The short answer: of course they are! The longer answer? Possibly, see more.
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Roadtrip the rpg
Yesterday we drove some nine hours to deliver stuff. Surprisingly it wasn’t few hours of talking and then endless hours of being bored. We got company and on...
The Mountain Witch
I started a game of The Mountain Witch yesterday. I like this game particularly for being so easy to pick up and start with a moments notice.
Political games
Last Sunday we played the third game in my series of political games. ‘Political’ does not here mean that they included political action by the characters, b...
Using role-play as a research tool
A while ago I attended a philosophy seminar where the last presentation was about using science fiction as a tool for research. For researchers interested in...
New year, new ideas
We were sitting in sauna and it was getting late when we decided that it would be a perfect opportunity to play a short game of role-play. Few hours of time,...
Between Heaven and Hell
We’ve been playing Nobilis for some time now. It is a campaign, led by me, about the diplomacy between Heaven and Hell. The players have two sets of characte...
ReNutopia
Remember that game of Shadowrun I mentioned before? It died after some three playing sessions. However, it had too much potential & time spent on creatin...
Computers and role-play
I noticed something when I happened to watch a tv-program on games. It seems (and this is in no way rigorously analytical, just a hunch) that a (computer) ga...
Tähti
We’ve played Mike Pohjola’s new game Tähti (Star) for a few times. It’s a game about teenage mutant ninj- krhm, I mean about a teenage mutant girl band. It’s...
Nutopia
We’ve started a new role-playing game, with an interesting subject. It’s a game of Shadowrun, although we’ve had to make some changes in order to fit the rul...