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Aedelbert’s Tower of Confounding

Aedelbert Smart was – despite his last name – not a very clever magician. His thick beard hid a weak chin and his unrelenting confidence hid a weak but cunning intellect. Through trickery and deceit, Aedelbert stole a tower –… Continue Reading →

TTRPGs and Usability

A table-top role-playing game is probably one of the least usable gaming artifacts that I know of, with the possible exception of that thing PlayStation did with movement, or maybe the Kinect for non-English speakers who were women with an… Continue Reading →

The Unplayability of (some) TTRPGs

Some background before I dive into this specific opinion. I have reviewed games and more specifically TTRPGs since 2005 in the Swedish gaming magazine Fenix. To date I have written around 600 reviews, and more than half of those are… Continue Reading →

RPGs, TTRPGs, What’s in a Name?

There’s one development that I kind of resent, and that’s the fact that what we used to call RPGs have now morphed into TTRPGs. I understand that this is a development that comes from the fact that the digital version… Continue Reading →

Can you speak cultish?

This is a short primer for DM:s who want to create a cult quickly. Maybe it sounds fake to use language as a shortcut to creating a cult, and also to convey that it is a cult in TTRPGs. However,… Continue Reading →

I’m playing D&D

I started playing role-playing games of the table-top variety in the mid eighties. Since I’m from Sweden, Europe and not North America, I didn’t play Dungeons & Dragons. I played a Swedish version of Basic Role-playing called “Drakar och Demoner”…. Continue Reading →

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