Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition won the Origins Awards for Best RPG as well as the fan award. I’m very happy about this. Origins attributes V5 to Modiphius but the original three books of the game were created in-house at White Wolf, before White Wolf was subsumed into its parent Continue Reading
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A Game Per Year: Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. (1990)
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 must confess that I cheated. The game for 1990 is Continue Reading
Maa
Last Friday saw the publication of the fourth roleplaying game I’ve worked on in a major capacity. I can safely say that it’s also the most unusual game of my career so far. Maa (that’s Earth in Finnish; the game is bilingual Finnish/English) got started last summer when the American Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Ironhedge Manifesto (1989)
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’ve tried to go for variety when choosing what to read Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Bullwinkle and Rocky Role-Playing Party Game (1988)
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. Originally, I planned to read something else entirely for 1988, but Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Miekka ja magia (1987)
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. The first Finnish roleplaying game is The Secret Treasure of Raguoc Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Tunnels and Trolls (1986)
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. So far, every game I’ve written about has been a first Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Dragonroar (1985)
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 had a lot of options for the game to read Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: Toon (1984)
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. Toon is a famous 80’s roleplaying game for a few different Continue Reading
A Game Per Year: James Bond 007 (1983)
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. Dungeons & Dragons, the world’s first roleplaying game, was published in Continue Reading